Tammy T Tran, Kevin P Madore, Kaitlyn E Tobin, Sophia H Block, Vyash Puliyadi, Shaw C Hsu, Alison R Preston, Arnold Bakker, Anthony D Wagner
{"title":"Age-Related differences in the relationship between sustained attention and associative memory and Memory-Guided inference.","authors":"Tammy T Tran, Kevin P Madore, Kaitlyn E Tobin, Sophia H Block, Vyash Puliyadi, Shaw C Hsu, Alison R Preston, Arnold Bakker, Anthony D Wagner","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01292-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01292-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Episodic memory enables the encoding and retrieval of novel associations, as well as the bridging across learned associations to draw novel inferences. A fundamental goal of memory science is to understand the factors that give rise to individual and age-related differences in memory-dependent cognition. Variability in episodic memory could arise, in part, from both individual differences in sustained attention and diminished attention in aging. We first report that, relative to young adults (N = 23; M = 20.0 years), older adults (N = 26, M = 68.7 years) demonstrated lower associative memory and memory-guided associative inference performance and that this age-related reduction in associative inference occurs even when controlling for associative memory performance. Next, we confirm these age-related memory differences by using a high-powered, online replication study (young adults: N = 143, M = 26.2 years; older adults N = 133, M = 67.7 years), further demonstrating that age-related differences in memory do not reflect group differences in sustained attention (as assayed by the gradual-onset continuous performance task; gradCPT). Finally, we report that individual differences in sustained attention explain between-person variability in associative memory and inference performance in the present, online young adult sample, but not in the older adult sample. These findings extend understanding of the links between attention and memory in young adults, demonstrating that differences in sustained attention was related to differences in memory-guided inference. By contrast, our data suggest that the present age-related differences in memory-dependent behavior and the memory differences between older adults are due to attention-independent mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jana Isabelle Braunwarth, Nicola Kristina Ferdinand
{"title":"The impact of emotional feedback in learning easy and difficult tasks - an ERP study.","authors":"Jana Isabelle Braunwarth, Nicola Kristina Ferdinand","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01284-2","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13415-025-01284-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Learning from the emotional reaction of others is crucial in our everyday lives. We assumed that additional emotional information could be especially beneficial, when a task is difficult and the limits of working memory capacity are reached. For this reason, we examined whether a potential benefit of emotional feedback during reinforcement learning is dependent on working memory load. In addition to learning performance, we analysed the neural mechanisms of reinforcement learning by examining two event-related potentials (ERPs): feedback-related negativity (FRN) and P3b. Participants were divided into two difficulty groups (with n = 21 in the difficult and n = 22 in the easy group), performing a learning task with emotional or non-emotional feedback. Task difficulty was manipulated by varying the number of stimulus-response associations. Participants' showed learning in all conditions. Emotional feedback led to increased accuracy and decreased reaction times in both groups. However, this benefit occurred earlier in the easy condition. The detection of unexpected events, as reflected in the peak-to-peak FRN, as well as working memory updating, as reflected in the P3b, were enhanced after emotional in contrast to non-emotional feedback for both groups. In contrast, task difficulty had no effect on the detection of unexpected events but led to a P3b that was more evenly distributed over the scalp, which could indicate that additional frontal resources were recruited to perform the difficult task. Our results suggest that working memory load and emotional information independently influence feedback processing without interacting.</p>","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Lojowska, J M Gerbracht, J B Engelmann, K Roelofs, M Mulckhuyse
{"title":"A transcranial magnetic stimulation study on the role of the right angular gyrus in orienting and reorienting of attention toward threat.","authors":"M Lojowska, J M Gerbracht, J B Engelmann, K Roelofs, M Mulckhuyse","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01275-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01275-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reorientation of attention to threatening stimuli is a fundamental part of human cognition. Such interaction between cognitive and affective processes is often associated with faster response times. In the present study, the role of the right angular gyrus (AG) in reorienting to threat is examined. An exogenous spatial cueing paradigm was adopted with threatening and nonthreatening targets. Threat was induced by means of differential fear conditioning of the target. Single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied to the right AG at different stimulus onset asynchronies (SOA) after target onset (range 30-300 ms). Transcranial magnetic stimulation was predicted to interfere at an earlier SOA with reorienting (during invalidly cued trials) to threatening targets. Even though an overall decrement in performance to targets contralateral to TMS stimulation was found, TMS to right AG did not specifically affect reorienting, neither to safe nor to threatening targets. We suggest that detection of biologically significant stimuli outside the focus of attention may depend more on the ventral frontoparietal rather than dorsal frontoparietal network of attention.</p>","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143722509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eline S Kruithof, Eva M Drop, Daan Gerits, Jana Klaus, Dennis J L G Schutter
{"title":"Continuous theta burst stimulation to the medial posterior cerebellum impairs reversal learning in healthy volunteers.","authors":"Eline S Kruithof, Eva M Drop, Daan Gerits, Jana Klaus, Dennis J L G Schutter","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01273-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01273-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The role of the cerebellum in associative learning and context-updating implies involvement in learning reward-punishment contingencies. This study examined the direct contribution of the cerebellum to reward- and punishment-based reversal learning. A total of 111 healthy right-handed adult volunteers received continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) to either the medial posterior cerebellum (n = 37), right posterolateral cerebellum (n = 37), or right occipital lobe (n = 37) in this single-blind between-subjects study. A gambling task with two changing reward-punishment contingencies (reversals) was administered to assess reversal learning rate and the implementation of the optimal strategy as primary endpoints. As secondary endpoints, heart rate variability (HRV), state anxiety, state anger, trait aggression, and trait impulsivity were assessed to examine interactions with cerebellar cTBS on the implementation of the optimal strategy. Results showed that medial posterior cerebellar cTBS compared with right posterolateral cerebellar and right occipital lobe cTBS reduced learning rate after the first reversal and diminished the implementation of the optimal strategy after learning the second reversal. No interactions of cTBS with HRV, state anxiety, state anger, trait aggression, and trait impulsivity on the implementation of the optimal strategy were observed. Our findings provide evidence for involvement of the cerebellum in reward- and punishment-based reversal learning and behavioral adaptation.</p>","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143722514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minhee Yoo, Giwon Bahg, Brandon Turner, Ian Krajbich
{"title":"People display consistent recency and primacy effects in behavior and neural activity across perceptual and value-based judgments.","authors":"Minhee Yoo, Giwon Bahg, Brandon Turner, Ian Krajbich","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01285-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01285-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Retrospective judgments require decision-makers to gather information over time and integrate that information into a summary statistic like the average. Many retrospective judgments require putting equal weight on early and late information, in contrast to prospective judgments that involve predicting the future and so rely more on late information. We investigate how people weight information over time when continuously reporting the average stimulus strength in a sequence of displays. We investigate the consistency of these temporal profiles across perceptual and value-based tasks using both behavior and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. We found that people display remarkably consistent temporal weighting functions across choice domains, with a generally strong recency bias and modest primacy bias. The fMRI data revealed evidence-tracking activity in the cuneus in both tasks and in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the value-based task. Finally, a network of cognitive control regions is more active for people who exhibit a stronger primacy vs. recency bias. Together, our behavioral findings indicate that people consistently overweight recency when evaluating past information, and the neural data suggest that overcoming this tendency may require cognitive control.</p>","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143722516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ata B Karagoz, Erin K Moran, Deanna M Barch, Wouter Kool, Zachariah M Reagh
{"title":"Evidence for shallow cognitive maps in Schizophrenia.","authors":"Ata B Karagoz, Erin K Moran, Deanna M Barch, Wouter Kool, Zachariah M Reagh","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01283-3","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13415-025-01283-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals with schizophrenia can have marked deficits in goal-directed decision making. Prominent theories differ in whether schizophrenia (SZ) affects the ability to exert cognitive control or the motivation to exert control. An alternative explanation is that schizophrenia negatively impacts the formation of cognitive maps, the internal representations of the way the world is structured, necessary for the formation of effective action plans. That is, deficits in decision-making could arise when goal-directed control and motivation are intact but used to plan over ill-formed maps. We tested the hypothesis that individuals with SZ are impaired in constructing cognitive maps. We combine a behavioral representational similarity analysis technique with a sequential decision-making task. This enables us to examine how relationships between choice options change when individuals with SZ and healthy age-matched controls build a cognitive map of the task structure. Our results indicate that SZ affects how people represent the structure of the task, focusing more on simpler visual features and less on abstract, higher-order, planning-relevant features. At the same time, we find that individuals with SZ were able to display similar performance on this task compared with controls, emphasizing the need for a distinction between cognitive map formation and changes in goal-directed control in understanding cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.</p>","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chiara Longo, Giulia Mattavelli, Alice Beati, Maria Pennacchio, Bryan Bertoldi, Maria Chiara Malaguti, Costanza Papagno
{"title":"Affective priming of body and facial expressions in Parkinson's disease.","authors":"Chiara Longo, Giulia Mattavelli, Alice Beati, Maria Pennacchio, Bryan Bertoldi, Maria Chiara Malaguti, Costanza Papagno","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01290-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01290-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) often experience impairments in emotion processing. Previous literature has highlighted deficits in facial expression recognition and body movement processing, including social signals. However, to date, the integration of facial and bodily expressions has been investigated in healthy populations, but not in individuals with PD. The present study assessed the reciprocal influence between facial and body emotion recognition by using subliminal priming paradigms in a sample of PD patients and in healthy controls (HC). Participants completed both a Face-Body and a Body-Face priming task, in which facial or body expressions subliminally primed the discrimination of body or face emotions, respectively. Recognition of face and body emotions was also assessed. The results revealed that the discrimination of fearful and happy body expressions was not modulated by the previous congruent, incongruent, or neutral face in PD patients, whereas a significant Face-Body priming effect was observed in HC. In contrast, body emotion did not significantly prime face expression discrimination in either group. These findings suggest an impairment in the automatic integration of emotional information from faces and bodies in PD, which may hinder the detection of mismatches between emotional information from different cues.</p>","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenneth W Carlson, Harry R Smolker, Louisa L Smith, Hannah R Snyder, Benjamin L Hankin, Marie T Banich
{"title":"Correction: Individual differences in intolerance of uncertainty is primarily linked to the structure of inferior frontal regions.","authors":"Kenneth W Carlson, Harry R Smolker, Louisa L Smith, Hannah R Snyder, Benjamin L Hankin, Marie T Banich","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01288-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01288-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tyson M Perez, Divya B Adhia, Paul Glue, Jiaxu Zeng, Peter Dillingham, Muhammad S Navid, Imran K Niazi, Calvin K Young, Mark Smith, Dirk De Ridder
{"title":"Infraslow Closed-Loop Brain Training for Anxiety and Depression (ISAD): A pilot randomised, sham-controlled trial in adult females with internalizing disorders.","authors":"Tyson M Perez, Divya B Adhia, Paul Glue, Jiaxu Zeng, Peter Dillingham, Muhammad S Navid, Imran K Niazi, Calvin K Young, Mark Smith, Dirk De Ridder","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01279-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01279-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The core resting-state networks (RSNs) have been shown to be dysfunctional in individuals with internalizing disorders (IDs; e.g., anxiety, depression). Source-localised, closed-loop brain training of infraslow (≤ 0.1 Hz) EEG signals may have the potential to reduce symptoms associated with IDs and restore normal core RSN function.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a pilot randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, parallel-group (3-arm) trial of infraslow neurofeedback (ISF-NFB) in adult females (n = 60) with IDs. Primary endpoints, which included the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and resting-state EEG activity and connectivity, were measured at baseline and post 6 sessions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study found credible evidence of strong nonspecific effects as evidenced by clinically important HADS score improvements (i.e., reductions) across groups. An absence of HADS score change differences between the sham and active groups indicated a lack of specific effects. Although there were credible slow (0.2-1.5 Hz) and delta (2-3.5 Hz) band activity reductions in the 1-region ISF-NFB group relative to sham within the targeted region of interest (i.e., posterior cingulate), differences in activity and connectivity modulation in the targeted frequency band of interest (i.e., ISFs = 0.01-0.1 Hz) were lacking between sham and active groups. Credible positive associations between changes in HADS depression scores and anterior cingulate cortex slow and delta activity also were found.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Short-term sham and genuine ISF-NFB resulted in rapid, clinically important improvements that were nonspecific in nature and possibly driven by placebo-related mechanisms. Future ISF-NFB trials should consider implementing design modifications that may better induce differential modulation of ISFs between sham and treatment groups, thereby enhancing the potential for specific clinical effects in ID populations.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>The trial was prospectively registered with the Australia New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR; Trial ID: ACTRN12619001428156).</p>","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emilia F Cárdenas, Maya Jackson, Julia Garon-Bissonnette, Kathryn L Humphreys, Autumn Kujawa
{"title":"Social reward responsiveness as a moderator of the association between perceived bonding with infants and depressive symptoms in postpartum women.","authors":"Emilia F Cárdenas, Maya Jackson, Julia Garon-Bissonnette, Kathryn L Humphreys, Autumn Kujawa","doi":"10.3758/s13415-025-01286-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01286-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a need to identify neurobiological and psychosocial risk processes for postpartum depression (PPD). Previous research links low reward responsiveness with lower reported affiliation or bond to one's infant and PPD symptoms, but the potential moderating role of reward processing in the relationship between bonding with infants and PPD has yet to be examined. The current study (n = 117) used a personally salient social reward task to examine whether neural reward responsiveness moderates the association between bonding difficulties and PPD symptoms. Postpartum women (n = 93) completed the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire biweekly following childbirth until 8 weeks postpartum, with responses averaged across timepoints. At 8 weeks postpartum, participants completed an electroencephalogram (EEG) Social Incentive Delay task, which included social reward feedback indicating participants would see a personally salient social reward (i.e., cute photo of their infant) and neutral feedback indicating participants would see a neutral image while electroencephalogram data were collected. Participants also self-reported depressive symptoms. A larger social RewP was associated with greater perceived bonding difficulties, and social RewP and self-reported bonding interacted to predict PPD symptoms. The association between bonding difficulties and greater PPD symptoms was statistically significant only for women low in social reward responsiveness. RewP to personally salient infant social reward may be a relevant measure of brain function in the context of maternal perceived bonding and PPD risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":50672,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}