{"title":"Mapping 60 Years of Psychophysiology: A Bibliometric Analysis of Journal Performance, Authorship Trends, and Thematic Evolution.","authors":"Christian Panitz, Carola Dell'Acqua","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70002","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychophysiology, the flagship journal of psychophysiological research, has played a key role in the field for 60 years. For the present study, we conducted a bibliometric analysis assessing the journal's development in terms of performance, authorship trends, and thematic content for this time span. Over the years, Psychophysiology has experienced a consistent increase in manuscript submissions, published articles, and impact factor. Authorship trends showed larger, more diverse author teams, with a growing percentage of female first authors now representing about 50% of submissions and an increase in international collaborations. Thematic content has evolved, shifting from peripheral measures to central nervous system measures like EEG and ERPs while maintaining the journal's long-standing emphasis on methodological advancements. Research topics have expanded from basic stimulus processing to more complex investigations into emotion, cognition, and psychopathology, with growing interdisciplinary integration. This article provides a quantitative overview of Psychophysiology's contributions and development, aimed at offering insights into the journal's past, current state, and potential future directions in psychophysiological research.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e70002"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11788248/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143080876","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}
PsychophysiologyPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-11-26DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14733
Sonya V Troller-Renfree, Santiago Morales, George A Buzzell, Aislinn Sandre
{"title":"Heterogeneity in pediatric resting EEG data processing and analysis: A state of the field.","authors":"Sonya V Troller-Renfree, Santiago Morales, George A Buzzell, Aislinn Sandre","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14733","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14733","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developmental, resting electroencephalography (EEG) is gaining rapid popularity with implementation in large-scale studies as well as a recent WHO report naming resting EEG as a gold standard measure of brain health. With an increased interest in resting EEG as a potential biomarker for neurocognition, it is paramount that resting EEG findings are reliable and reproducible. One of the major threats to replicability and reproducibility stems from variations in preprocessing and analysis. One of the primary challenges facing the field of developmental EEG is that it can be challenging to acquire data from infants and children, which commonly makes data cleaning and analysis difficult and unstandardized. The goal of the present manuscript is to take a state of the field of the methods experts in resting EEG report they would use to clean and analyze a hypothetical data set. Here we report on the responses of 66 self-identified experts in developmental psychophysiology, none of which submitted identical preregistrations. As expected, there were areas of more and less consensus, but ultimately, we believe our findings highlight opportunities for core methodological work and field-level efforts to establish consensus.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":" ","pages":"e14733"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11871997/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142732193","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":"Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Neurophysiological Indices of Working Memory Maintenance in Young Adults.","authors":"Vera Nina Looser, Markus Gerber, Sebastian Ludyga","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70012","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Working memory is a crucial component of cognitive performance, supporting well-being, mental health, and successful personal and academic endeavors. Working memory performance and capacity peak during young adulthood, a critical period for managing increased life challenges. Emerging evidence indicates that cardiorespiratory fitness holds potential to enhance working memory performance; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This study examined the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and neurophysiological markers of cognitive control during a task requiring working memory maintenance. Young healthy adults (N = 112) completed a submaximal ergometer test to estimate cardiorespiratory fitness. Working memory maintenance was assessed using the Sternberg task under low and high cognitive loads, while event-related potentials (ERP) components (cue-P300, CNV, and probe-P300) were recorded. In addition, an immediate free recall task was administered. Path analysis revealed that higher cardiorespiratory fitness was significantly associated with better accuracy in the Sternberg task exclusively under high cognitive load (β = 0.21, p = 0.03). In the high load condition, higher negativity of the contingent negative variation (CNV) amplitude was significantly associated with higher fitness levels (β = -0.20, p = 0.03) and with better performance on the immediate free recall task (β = -0.23, p = 0.02), suggesting enhanced neurophysiological preparatory processes and dominance of proactive cognitive control strategy in fitter individuals. Cue-P300 and probe-P300 did not show significant associations with cardiorespiratory fitness nor working memory performance. These findings underscore the role of proactive cognitive control in mediating the benefits of cardiorespiratory fitness on cognitive performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e70012"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143256427","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":"Temporal dynamics of negative emotion regulation: Insights from facial electromyography.","authors":"Sylvia D Kreibig, James J Gross","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14732","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14732","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion regulation (ER) is a multifaceted process that unfolds over time. This study investigated the temporal dynamics of ER on negative affect (NA) and positive affect (PA). We examined whether NA and PA changes occur sequentially or concurrently. After participants had been exposed to unpleasant pictures for 8000 ms, they received instructions to either continue viewing the picture (no regulation) or reappraise it with a neutral meaning (neutralize goal) or positive meaning (transform goal) for another 8000 ms. We obtained corrugator supercilii and zygomaticus major electromyography (EMG) as objective measures of NA and PA. For the no-regulation condition, upon instruction onset, we observed maintained high corrugator and low zygomaticus EMG reactivity, indicating sustained NA activation. Compared to no-regulation, for the neutralize goal, we observed corrugator reduction starting at 1500 ms after instruction onset and no change in zygomaticus, indicating decreased NA and generation of neutral emotion. For the transform goal, we observed corrugator reduction starting at 1000 ms and zygomaticus increase at 3500 ms after instruction onset, indicating decreased NA and increased PA and generation of positive emotion. Model-fitting analyses showed that the best-fitting trajectory for the transform goal's pattern of change was initial NA reduction that turns into PA increase at 2000 ms. These distinct temporal patterns highlight the possibility of effecting one-dimensional NA change with the neutralize goal and sequential two-dimensional change (first decreasing NA, then increasing PA) with the transform goal. This research sheds light on the time course of emotional change generated by different emotion goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e14732"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190329","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}
Ian Phillips, Michael A Johns, Nick B Pandža, Regina C Calloway, Valerie P Karuzis, Stefanie E Kuchinsky
{"title":"Three Hundred Hertz Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation (taVNS) Impacts Pupil Size Non-Linearly as a Function of Intensity.","authors":"Ian Phillips, Michael A Johns, Nick B Pandža, Regina C Calloway, Valerie P Karuzis, Stefanie E Kuchinsky","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70011","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a neuromodulatory technique that may have numerous potential health and human performance benefits. However, optimal stimulation parameters for maximizing taVNS efficacy are unknown. Progress is impeded by disagreement on the identification of a biomarker that reliably indexes activation of neuromodulatory systems targeted by taVNS, including the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system. Pupil size varies with LC-NE activity and is one potential taVNS biomarker that has shown inconsistent sensitivity to taVNS in prior studies. The present study examined the relationship between pupil size and taVNS using stimulation parameters that have shown promising behavioral effects in prior studies but have received comparatively little attention. Participants received trains of 50 μs taVNS pulses delivered continuously below perceptual threshold at 300 Hz to the left external acoustic meatus (EAM) while pupil size was recorded during a pupillary light reflex task. Analysis of pupil size using generalized additive mixed modeling (GAMM) revealed a non-linear relationship between taVNS intensity and pupil diameter. Active taVNS increased pupil size during stimulation for participants who received taVNS between 2 and approximately 4.8 mA, but not for participants who received higher-intensity taVNS (up to 8.1 mA). In addition, taVNS effects persisted in subsequent blocks, mitigating decreases in pupil size over the course of the task. These findings suggest 300 Hz taVNS activates the LC-NE system when applied to the EAM, but its effects may be counteracted at higher intensities.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e70011"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11866280/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516359","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":"Comprehensive Analysis of Event-Related Potentials of Response Inhibition: The Role of Negative Urgency and Compulsivity.","authors":"Verena Wüllhorst, Raoul Wüllhorst, Rebecca Overmeyer, Tanja Endrass","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition are assumed to relate to impulsivity and compulsivity, but findings are inconsistent, possibly due to prior research studying these dimensions in isolation. Negative urgency, the tendency to act impulsive under negative affect, and compulsivity relate to various mental disorders and are assumed to reflect deficits in inhibitory control. However, few studies have examined how response inhibition relates to negative urgency, compulsivity, or their interaction. To address this gap, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the behavioral and neural correlates of response inhibition and their associations with negative urgency and compulsivity. We examined 233 participants who performed a stop-signal task while electroencephalography was recorded. The analysis involved single-trial regression and latency analyses to explore the relationships with self-reported negative urgency and compulsivity. Stop-signal reaction times (SSRTs) and negative urgency were associated with an attenuated P3 effect contrasting successful stop versus go trials. Crucially, longer SSRT was associated with reduced P1 amplitudes (on successful and failed stops) and a later onset and peak of the P3. Interestingly, the opposite pattern was observed for higher negative urgency with higher P1 amplitudes and an earlier P3 onset and peak in successful stop trials. Associations with compulsivity were not observed. Considering early sensorimotor processes and latency effects are important to capture differences between negative urgency and SSRT. Higher stop-signal-related P1 amplitudes and a faster action cancellation process may compensate reduced P3-related activity in high negative urgency.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e70000"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11794679/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190310","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}
Urszula Oszczapinska, Sungjoon Park, Yuqi Qiu, Bridget Nance, Megan Julien, Laurie M Heller
{"title":"The Impact of Disgusting Sounds on Pupil Diameter of Misophonic and Non-Misophonic Listeners.","authors":"Urszula Oszczapinska, Sungjoon Park, Yuqi Qiu, Bridget Nance, Megan Julien, Laurie M Heller","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70014","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Everyday sounds can elicit a range of emotional and physiological responses. For individuals with misophonia, some sounds can produce strong feelings of disgust, annoyance, and anger, often accompanied by increased perspiration and heart rate. Presently, methods of diagnosing misophonia rely on clinical interviews and self-assessment scales. Coupling these subjective measures with an objective, physiological method like pupillometry may lead to improved understanding of misophonia and inform efficacy of treatments. Previous studies show that both unpleasant and pleasant sounds increase pupil diameter (Partala and Surakka 2003; Nakakoga et al. 2020); however, these have not compared pupil responses to disgust versus other emotions. Thus, we asked whether the pupil dilation to auditorily disgusting stimuli would be differentiable from other emotional sounds. In our listening task, we monitored pupil size changes while participants listened to positive and negative emotional sounds from the IADS database (Bradley and Lang 2007) along with \"triggers\" known to be especially aversive to misophonics. Participants reported the intensity of their emotional reactions (e.g., disgust, annoyance, happiness, fear) as well as valence and arousal. Misophonic listeners reported greater intensity of emotions associated with triggers (disgust, anger, and annoyance) as well as for fear. For all listeners, there was a positive association between changes in pupil diameter and emotion intensity. Overall, misophonics had greater pupil dilation than non-misophonics, but after equating for emotion category of the sounds, misophonic pupil dilation was larger only for trigger sounds. Thus, pupillometry can differentiate misophonic and non-misophonic listeners based on responses to everyday sounds evoking disgust.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e70014"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11843529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143468882","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}
PsychophysiologyPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-10DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14746
Joonbeom Kim, Jinsil Ham, Jooyoung Oh
{"title":"A propensity score-adjusted HRV analysis of social avoidance and distress in patients with panic disorders.","authors":"Joonbeom Kim, Jinsil Ham, Jooyoung Oh","doi":"10.1111/psyp.14746","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.14746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Panic disorder (PD) may accompany elevated social avoidance and distress (SAD). Higher SAD in patients with PD predicts a poorer prognosis and response to treatment. As heart rate variability (HRV) reflects the self-regulatory capacity underlying SAD, applying HRV to distinguish PD heterogeneity would be clinically beneficial in formulating personalized treatment strategies. We hypothesized that HRV would be lower in patients with PD and severe SAD (PD-SAD group) than in those without SAD (PD group). A total of 288 patients met the eligibility criteria, with complete collection of variables of interest and HRV. The inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) method was used to balance the groups for the baseline characteristics of patients. Following IPTW adjustment, the average treatment effects were computed using inverse propensity weighting with regression adjustment (IPW-RA). All characteristics were similar in both groups after IPTW adjustment. The PD-SAD group showed a decreased tendency in time domain parameters, including mean heart rate, SDNN, RMSSD, and pNN50 with a nonlinear domain of SD1. However, no significant intergroup differences were observed in the frequency domain. Higher SAD in PD was associated with reduced HRV, mainly in the time domain, which may be attributed to the shared neural networks between dysfunctional self-regulation statuses, as indexed by reduced HRV. As respiratory sinus arrhythmia is mainly reflected in the frequency domain, the time domain may be more reliable for identifying heterogeneity within patients with PD, who are frequently associated with respiratory pattern abnormalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":" ","pages":"e14746"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142802172","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}
Francisco Jaume-Guazzini, Vladimir López, Aitana Grasso-Cladera, Josefina Mattoli-Sanchez, María E Moneta, Cristóbal Moënne-Loccoz, Francisco J Parada
{"title":"Perception of Attachment Security, Neurodynamics of Emotion Recognition, and Social Skills in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence: A Multilinear Modeling Study.","authors":"Francisco Jaume-Guazzini, Vladimir López, Aitana Grasso-Cladera, Josefina Mattoli-Sanchez, María E Moneta, Cristóbal Moënne-Loccoz, Francisco J Parada","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70008","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores the relationship between perception of attachment security (PAS), neurobehavioral dynamics during emotion recognition, and social skills (SSk) in late childhood and early adolescence using a multilinear modeling approach. Participants engaged in a facial expression of emotion recognition task while electroencephalography (EEG) signals were recorded. Our multilinear modeling approach aims to capture the interaction between what is predefined as \"known\" and \"unknown\" effects in a more interpretable manner. Based on prior research and theoretical perspectives, it was hypothesized that higher PAS levels would be associated with improved performance in emotion recognition tasks, including enhanced accuracy, faster reaction times, and distinct neurobehavioral dynamics. Additionally, superior task performance was predicted to be linked to enhanced social skills. Results show early midline occipital increment in neurobehavioral dynamics at approximately 70 and 170 ms, indicating that attachment security shapes the organization of the nervous system and facilitates early neurobehavioral processes. This finding suggests that individuals with higher attachment security levels possess a heightened ability to perceive and understand emotions, ultimately contributing to enhanced social competence. Furthermore, social competence was found to influence early dynamics over right hemisphere sensors, underscoring the significance of positive social skills and attachment security in integrating facial expressions of emotions. During later processing stages, dynamics associated with antisocial behavior exhibited an increment around 200 ms after stimulus onset. This finding suggests that cognitive resources may be allocated toward disengaging from or sustaining emotional processing, potentially impeding the consideration of interpersonal interactions and contextual factors crucial for social skill development. Understanding the relationship between neurobehavioral dynamics, antisocial behavior, and social competence highlights the importance of considering a broader range of factors to fully comprehend social competence.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e70008"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383192","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":"Hidden Brain States Reveal the Temporal Dynamics of Neural Oscillations During Metaphor Generation and Their Role in Verbal Creativity.","authors":"Yuhua Yu, Lindsay Krebs, Mark Beeman, Vicky T Lai","doi":"10.1111/psyp.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psyp.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated the oscillatory brain processes while people generated metaphors for science concepts. Applying a hidden Markov model, we extracted brain states, representing temporally disentangled oscillatory processes, from EEG data. By associating the trial-by-trial occupancy of brain states with the creative quality, novelty, and aptness of the generated metaphors, we identified oscillatory processes that played a role in creative ideation in a data-driven manner. Metaphor novelty was positively associated with occupancy in a state featuring widespread alpha-band synchronization during the early trial stage and occupancy in a state featuring alpha-band desynchronization during the later trial stage. In addition, metaphor novelty was negatively associated with gamma-band power. Our results not only extend previous literature on the role of oscillatory processes in creative ideation but also highlight the importance of temporal dynamics in understanding the brain mechanisms during sustained cognitive task performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":20913,"journal":{"name":"Psychophysiology","volume":"62 2","pages":"e70023"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11826972/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143414970","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}