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{"title":"Behaviorally Irrelevant Feature Matching Increases Neural and Behavioral Working Memory Readout.","authors":"Aytaç Karabay, Michael J Wolff, Veera Ruuskanen, Elkan G Akyürek","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is an ongoing debate about whether working memory (WM) maintenance relies on persistent activity and/or short-term synaptic plasticity. This is a challenging question, because neuroimaging techniques in cognitive neuroscience measure activity only. Recently, neural perturbation techniques have been developed to tackle this issue, such as visual impulse perturbation or \"pinging,\" which reveals (un)attended WM content during maintenance. There are contrasting explanations of how pinging reveals WM content, which is central to the debate. Pinging could reveal mnemonic representations by perturbing content-specific networks or by increasing the neural signal-to-noise ratio of active neural states. Here we tested the extent to which the neural impulse response is patterned by the WM network, by presenting two different impulse stimuli. If the impulse interacts with WM networks, the WM-specific impulse response should be enhanced by physical overlap between the initial memory item and the subsequent external perturbation stimulus. This prediction was tested in a working memory task by matching or mismatching task-irrelevant spatial frequencies between memory items and impulse stimuli, as well as probes. Matching probe spatial frequency with memory items resulted in faster behavioral response times and matching impulse spatial frequency with memory items increased the specificity of the neural impulse response as measured from EEG. Matching spatial frequencies did neither result in globally stronger neural responses nor in a larger decrease in trial-to-trial variability compared to mismatching spatial frequencies. The improved neural and behavioral readout of irrelevant feature matching provide evidence that impulse perturbation interacts directly with the memory representations.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e70020"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11866274/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Age-related differences of the time-varying features in the brain functional connectivity and cognitive aging.","authors":"Furong Yao, Ziyang Zhao, Yin Wang, Tongtong Li, Miao Chen, Zhijun Yao, Jin Jiao, Bin Hu","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14702","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14702","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brain functional modular organization changes with age. Considering the brain as a dynamic system, recent studies have suggested that time-varying connectivity provides more information on brain functions. However, the spontaneous reconfiguration of modular brain structures over time during aging remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the age-related dynamic modular reconfiguration using resting-state functional MRI data (615 participants, aged 18-88 years) from Cam-CAN. We employed a graph-based modularity analysis to investigate modular variability and the transition of nodes from one module to another in modular brain networks across the adult lifespan. Results showed that modular structure exhibits both linear and nonlinear age-related trends. The modular variability is higher in early and late adulthood, with higher modular variability in the association networks and lower modular variability in the primary networks. In addition, the whole-brain transition matrix showed that the times of transition from other networks to the dorsal attention network were the largest. Furthermore, the modular structure was closely related to the number of cognitive components and memory-related cognitive performance, suggesting a potential contribution to flexibility cognitive function. Our findings highlighted the notable dynamic characteristics in large-scale brain networks across the adult lifespan, which enhanced our understanding of the neural substrate in various cognitions during aging. These findings also provided further evidence that dedifferentiation and compensation are the outcomes of functional brain interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":" ","pages":"e14702"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142558615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Empathetic solicitude attenuates the affective and sensory dimensions of CO₂-induced dyspnea: A randomized parallel arm experimental trial in healthy humans.","authors":"Nathalie Nion, Marie-Cécile Niérat, Sophie Lavault, Noémie Simon-Tillaux, Antoine Guerder, Pierre-Yves Blanchard, Capucine Morélot-Panzini, Laure Serresse, Thomas Similowski","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14740","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14740","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dyspnea testifies to profound suffering in patients and its relief is a priority for caregivers. This can be achieved by correcting causative disorders (\"etiopathogenic\" approach) or targeting the dyspnea itself (\"symptomatic\" approach), as is done for pain. Empathetic solicitude from caregivers has an intrinsic analgesic effect, but its effects on dyspnea have not been formally documented. This study tests the hypothesis that the empathetic solicitude behavior of a caregiver during experimental induction of acute and intense dyspnea would have a mitigating effect. In a double-blind, randomized, controlled experimental trial, 80 healthy participants were assigned to a neutral behavior arm or a solicitude behavior arm. During two successive visits (V1 and V2), dyspnea was induced through CO₂-rebreathing and (i) assessed in an immediate manner using 10 cm affective and sensory visual analog scales (A-VAS and S-VAS) and (ii) post hoc using the Multidimensional Dyspnea Profile (MDP). A-VAS ratings at the end of the dyspnea challenge were significantly lower at V2 in the \"solicitude behavior\" arm than in the \"neutral behavior\" arm (6.69 [3.825-9.67] vs. 8.05 [6.43-10], p = 0.039). There were no significant differences between arms regarding S-VAS. MDP analysis showed that CO₂-rebreathing induced dyspnea of the air hunger type, with statistically significant reductions in its intensity and both the sensory and affective dimensions of dyspnea. This study shows that empathetic solicitude can reduce the affective and sensory dimensions of experimentally induced dyspnea in healthy volunteers. Future studies should evaluate the impact of empathetic solicitude on clinical dyspnea.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":" ","pages":"e14740"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11870812/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142771795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Speech Detection via Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography, Thoracic Impedance, Accelerometers, and Gyroscopes: A Machine Learning-Informed Comparative Study.","authors":"Melisa Saygin, Myrte Schoenmakers, Martin Gevonden, Eco de Geus","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Speech production interferes with the measurement of changes in cardiac vagal activity during acute stress by attenuating the expected drop in heart rate variability. Speech also induces cardiac sympathetic changes similar to those induced by psychological stress. In the laboratory, confounding of physiological stress reactivity by speech may be controlled experimentally. In ambulatory assessments, however, detection of speech episodes would be necessary to separate the physiological effects of psychosocial stress from those of speech. Using machine learning (https://osf.io/bk9nf), we trained and tested speech classification models on data from 56 participants (ages 18-39) under controlled laboratory conditions. They were equipped with privacy-secure wearables measuring thoracoabdominal respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP from a single and a dual-band set-up), thoracic impedance pneumography, and an upper sternum positioned unit with triaxial accelerometers and gyroscopes. Following an 80/20 train-test split, nested cross-validations were run with the machine learning algorithms XGBoost, gradient boosting, random forest, and logistic regression on the training set to get generalized performance estimates. Speech classification by the best model per method was then validated in the test set. Speech versus no-speech classification performance (AUC) for both nested cross-validation and test set predictions was excellent for thorax-abdomen RIP (nested cross-validation: 96.6%, test set prediction: 98.5%), thorax-only RIP (97.5%, 99.1%), impedance (97.0%, 97.8%), and accelerometry (99.3%, 99.6%). The sternal accelerometer method outperformed others. These open-access models leveraging biosignals have the potential to also work in daily life settings. This could enhance the trustworthiness of ambulatory psychophysiology, by enabling detection of speech and controlling for its confounding effects on physiology.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e70021"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11826986/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143414971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing Psychophysiological Well-Being Through Nature-Based Soundscapes: An Examination of Heart Rate Variability in a Cross-Over Study.","authors":"Susanne Kumpulainen, Samad Esmaeilzadeh, Markus Pesonen, Catarina Brazão, Arto J Pesola","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14760","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14760","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stress and psychological disorders are substantial public health concerns, necessitating innovative therapeutic strategies. This study investigated the psychophysiological benefits of nature-based soundscapes, drawing on the biophilia hypothesis. Using a randomized, acute cross-over design, 53 healthy participants experienced either a nature-based or a reference soundscape for 10 min, with a 2-min washout period. The nature-based soundscape integrated nature sounds with elements of music to create an immersive nature experience. A calm coffee shop soundscape without discernible speech was selected as a reference to represent a typical urban relaxation environment. Heart rate variability (HRV) was the primary outcome, with exploratory outcomes including heart and respiratory rates, and questionnaires assessing affective well-being, creativity, and belonging. Results showed that the nature-based soundscape significantly improved HRV and reduced heart and respiratory rates, indicating enhanced parasympathetic activity. Participants reported lower feelings of anxiety and depression and increased feelings of comfort, enthusiasm, creativity, and belonging. This study highlights the multifaceted benefits of nature-based soundscapes, suggesting they could serve as easily accessible therapeutic options for promoting immediate recovery and reducing daily stress in healthy individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 1","pages":"e14760"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11726612/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142972110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Electrophysiological correlates of why humans deviate from rational decision-making: A registered replication study.","authors":"Johannes Rodrigues, Martin Weiß, Grit Hein, Johannes Hewig","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14665","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14665","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In contrast to rational choice theory predicting humans to optimize expected utilities of choices, humans deviate from rational behavior in decision-making paradigms. Hewig et al. (2011) explored affective correlates of decision-making in the ultimatum game (UG) and the dictator game (DG). They found that feedback-related negativity (FRN), subjective valence ratings, and autonomic nervous system activity predicted rejection of monetary offers. This registered replication aimed to validate and extend these findings. Although behavioral patterns and results of subjective ratings closely matched the original study, not all psychophysiological effects were successfully replicated. Firstly, we could not replicate the reported effects of autonomic nervous system activity. Secondly, a quadratic instead of the originally proposed linear relation between the offer and the FRN emerged, possibly driven by the offer evaluation in economic games and the rewarding anticipation of successful punishment for low offers. Thirdly, P3 amplitudes mirrored the quadratic offer response pattern, generally peaking for the lowest offer. In contrast to the original study, P3 responses were larger in the UG compared with the DG. Finally, our findings indicate that participant-related higher midfrontal theta activation predicted lower acceptance behavior in the UG, with a systematic dampening effect for fairer offers. This highlights cognitive control as a crucial mechanism in economic decision-making to overcome behavioral defaults. Overall, our results conceptually support the original conclusion that decision-making in economic games is non-rational and dependent on the objective situation as well as emotional and neural markers, though not precisely as suggested by Hewig et al. (2011).</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":" ","pages":"e14665"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11775885/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141976488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revealing the different levels of action monitoring in visuomotor transformation task: Evidence from decomposition of cortical potentials.","authors":"Nikolay Syrov, Daha Garba Muhammad, Alexandra Medvedeva, Lev Yakovlev, Alexander Kaplan, Mikhail Lebedev","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14708","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14708","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the cortical correlates of motor response control and monitoring, using the Theory of Event Coding (TEC) as a framework to investigate signals related to low-level sensory processing of motor reafference and high-level response monitoring, including verification of response outcomes with the internal model. We used a visuomotor paradigm with two targets at different distances from the participant. For the recorded movement-related cortical potentials (MRCPs), we analyzed their different components and assessed the movement phases during which they are active. Residual iteration decomposition (RIDE) and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) were used for this analysis. Using RIDE, we separated MRCPs into signals related to different parallel processes of visuomotor transformation: stimulus processing (S-cluster), motor response preparation and execution (R-cluster), and intermediate processes (C-cluster). We revealed sequential activation in the R-cluster, with execution-related negative components and positive contralateral peaks reflecting reafference processing. We also identified the motor post-imperative negative variation within the R-cluster, highlighting the response outcome evaluation process included in the action file. Our findings extend the understanding of C-cluster signals, typically associated with stimulus-response mapping, by demonstrating C-activation from the preparatory stages through to response termination, highlighting its participation in action monitoring. In addition, we highlighted the ability of MVPA to identify movement-related attribute encoding: where statistical analysis showed independence of stimulus processing activity from movement distance, MVPA revealed distance-related differences in the S-cluster within a time window aligned with the lateralized readiness potential (LRP). This highlights the importance of integrating RIDE and MVPA to uncover the intricate neural dynamics of motor control, sensory integration, and response monitoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":" ","pages":"e14708"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11785542/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142473395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on anterior cingulate cortex activity in a cognitive control task.","authors":"Özde Sönmez, Elfriede Holstein, Sebastian Puschmann, Tina Schmitt, Karsten Witt, Christiane M Thiel","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14739","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14739","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) offers a non-invasive method to enhance noradrenergic neurotransmission in the human brain, thereby increasing cognitive control. Here, we investigate if changes in cognitive control induced by tVNS are mediated through locus coeruleus-induced modifications of neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex. Young healthy participants engaged in a simple cognitive control task focusing on response inhibition and a more complex task that involved both response inhibition and working memory, inside a magnetic resonance imaging scanner. The tasks were executed using a randomized within-subject design, with participants undergoing auricular tVNS and sham stimulation in separate sessions. tVNS significantly changed performance in the simple control task reflected in a greater propensity to respond. Furthermore, we observed a significant increase in neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex during the simple cognitive control task under tVNS. Functional connectivity analyses revealed positive coupling between neural activity in the locus coeruleus and anterior cingulate cortex, however, this was not modulated by tVNS. The findings suggest that non-invasive stimulation of the vagus nerve can modulate neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex. While these neural effects suggest an impact of tVNS in a key region involved in conflict monitoring and cognitive control, the behavioral effects are more indicative of a shift in response bias rather than enhanced cognitive control.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 1","pages":"e14739"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11711293/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142954078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unexpected Twists: Electrophysiological Correlates of Encoding and Retrieval of Events Eliciting Prediction Error.","authors":"Gözem Turan, Veronika Spiertz, Oded Bein, Yee Lee Shing, Sophie Nolden","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14752","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14752","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to the predictive processing framework, our brain constantly generates predictions based on past experiences and compares these predictions with incoming sensory information. When an event contradicts these predictions, it results in a prediction error (PE), which has been shown to enhance subsequent memory. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the influence of PEs on subsequent memory remain unclear. This study investigated the electrophysiological correlates during encoding and retrieval of events eliciting PEs. We employed a statistical learning task in which participants were presented with pairs of objects in sequence. Subsequently, while recording electroencephalography (EEG), we introduced PEs by replacing the second object of each pair with new objects and we then tested the participants' memory. Behaviorally, PEs did not enhance memory. During retrieval, we observed higher amplitudes in the recollection-related late positive component for violation items that were remembered compared to those that were forgotten. In contrast, no evidence for the presence of the FN400 component associated with familiarity was found. These results suggest that recollection, but not familiarity, plays a crucial role in the interplay between PE and memory. Contrary to our hypothesis, we did not observe a relationship between PEs and the P3 component during encoding. In conclusion, our study contributes to the growing body of knowledge concerning the intricate relationship between PEs and episodic memory. It sheds light on the underlying neural mechanisms involved and emphasizes the importance of recollection in this context.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 1","pages":"e14752"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11683864/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142910413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patterns of adaptation to stress cardiovascular responses in smokers during ad libitum smoking and withdrawal.","authors":"Tracey M Keogh, Siobhán Howard, Motohiro Nakajima, Mustafa al'Absi","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14719","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14719","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is considerable evidence documenting associations between tobacco smoking, including initiation, maintenance, and relapse of addiction, with diminished cardiovascular responses to acute psychological stress. However, less is known about how smokers respond to repeated stress across time. The current study examined patterns of cardiovascular reactivity and adaptation to recurrent stress among 24-h abstinence smokers, smokers who continued to smoke at their normal rate, and non-smokers. Smokers were randomly assigned to one of two groups; ad libitum (n = 42), or 24 h abstinence (n = 61); non-smokers (n = 43) provided comparative referencing. Across the two laboratory sessions, participants (n = 149) were asked to complete a modified version of the trier social stress test, while monitoring systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate activity. Results showed that while non-smokers had elevated cardiovascular reactivity to begin with, they showed a greater capacity to habituate to recurrent stress across sessions. The data also suggest that smokers displayed lower cardiovascular reactivity to acute psychological stress and showed little habituation to repeated stress. In adjusted models, smokers exhibited less systolic blood pressure habituation to stress. This response profile in smokers may be a potential mechanism that leads to further cardiotoxic effects on health.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":" ","pages":"e14719"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11775881/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}