{"title":"Waking qEEG in older adults with insomnia and its associations with sleep reactivity and dysfunctional beliefs about sleep","authors":"Hyewon Yeo, Jin Won Seo, Hyerin Gu, Seog Ju Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112373","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112373","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sleep quality often deteriorates with age, and insomnia among the elderly increases the risks of both physical and psychiatric disorders. To elucidate the mechanisms and identify useful diagnostic biomarkers for insomnia in the elderly, the current study investigated the associations of waking brain activity patterns with susceptibility to stress-induced insomnia (sleep reactivity) and dysfunctional beliefs about sleep, major factors precipitating and maintaining insomnia, respectively. Forty-five participants aged 60 years or older with insomnia completed self-reported measures assessing depression, anxiety, sleep quality, dysfunctional beliefs about sleep, and sleep reactivity. Participants were then examined by quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) during wakefulness, and spectral analysis was conducted to examine associations of regional frequency band power with these insomnia-precipitating and -maintaining factors. Dysfunctional beliefs about sleep were significantly correlated with higher beta/high-beta frequency band powers, while sleep reactivity was correlated with higher theta and delta frequency band powers. These findings suggest that sleep reactivity of older adults is associated with widespread cortical deactivation leading to poor stress coping, while their dysfunctional beliefs about sleep are associated with hyperactivation which is related to cognitive processes. These associations suggest that cognitive inflexibility and maladaptive stress-coping contribute to insomnia among the elderly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 112373"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141285457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Area measure of skin conductance in the Concealed Information Test","authors":"Reo Takahashi , Yusuke Shibuya , Michiko Tsuneoka , Tokihiro Ogawa","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Skin conductance (SC) is one of the indices commonly used in the autonomic Concealed Information Test (CIT), but SC amplitude is sometimes difficult to quantify. This study investigated the applicability of SC area to the CIT as an unambiguous measure of SC. Secondary analyses of an existing dataset indicated that SC area could be used to classify examinees according to their knowledge status, although the equivalence of its performance with the SC amplitude was inconclusive. Classification performance was best when the SC signal was converted to the difference from question onset and summed over 10 s after question onset. SC area produced relatively consistent evaluations of differential responses based on the amplitude for inter-item comparisons. In addition, the classification performance of SC area exceeded the chance level even for participants who showed few measurable amplitudes (low-responsive participants). A possible implication is that a tonic increase in SC occurred in response to the relevant question even in low-responsive participants, who are traditionally excluded from analysis. The use of SC area might contribute to more impartial data evaluation and broader application of the CIT. These results indicate that SC area can be used as an alternative measure of SC in the CIT.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 112375"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141263261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Premenstrual syndrome is associated with differences in heart rate variability and attentional control throughout the menstrual cycle: A pilot study","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Most persons with an active menstrual cycle suffer from a range of aversive symptoms (e.g. reduced ability to concentrate) in the days before their menstruation – the premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Biological and cognitive mechanisms of PMS are poorly understood. It has been shown that vagally mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV), a physiological marker of self-regulation, decreases during the PMS-affected cycle phase (luteal phase) only in individuals with high PMS symptomology. This study investigates the specific associations between vmHRV, PMS symptomology and cognitive self-regulation (attentional control).</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>In this between-subject study, participants completed an vmHRV baseline measurement through electrocardiography, a reaction time paradigm to measure attentional control (modified attention network test revised, ANT-R) and filled out a questionnaire regarding impact of PMS as well as current menstrual phase.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Mixed Model analysis showed interactions effects in the hypothesized direction. VmHRV was decreased during the luteal phase only in individuals with higher PMS. Analogously, performance in the Executive Functioning of the ANT-R task was reduced in the luteal compared to the follicular phase only in individuals with increased PMS symptoms. No effects were found in the Orienting Network Score.</p></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><p>The results point in the direction of associations between vmHRV, PMS and self-regulation. This could hint at common underlying mechanisms. Further research, however, must be conducted to examine causal pathways to confirm these associations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 112374"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141187222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Libera Ylenia Mastromatteo , Paolo Girardi , Jonas G. Miller , Sara Scrimin
{"title":"Moderate cardiac vagal tone is associated with more cooperation in children","authors":"Libera Ylenia Mastromatteo , Paolo Girardi , Jonas G. Miller , Sara Scrimin","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112371","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112371","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Childhood is a crucial period for prosocial development, including cooperative behaviors. Recent studies have shown a quadratic relation (inverted U-shape curve) between cardiac vagal tone (CVT) and various prosocial emotions and behaviors in children, but data are lacking on cooperative behaviors. In a sample of 111 school-aged children (<em>M</em> = 7.77; <em>SD</em> = 1.24, range: 6–11), we tested the association between the root mean square of successive differences in interbeat intervals (RMSSD) at rest, and cooperative behavior in a task designed to be comparable to a stag hunt game. We found evidence for an association between RMSSD and cooperation that follows an inverted U-shape. In addition, older children were more likely to cooperate than younger children. Lastly, we found an interaction between RMSSD and age such that the association between RMSSD and cooperation behavior was present for younger but not older children. In addition, we proposed an extension of the Johnson-Neyman test to assess the significant region of interaction between age and the linear and quadratic RMSSD. These results add to a growing literature suggesting that moderate RMSSD is associated with greater prosocial behavior and provide novel evidence that this association extends to children's cooperation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 112371"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167876024000758/pdfft?md5=cb14a1343304807049d005f4d8346e1b&pid=1-s2.0-S0167876024000758-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141177024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bixuan Du , Shuxin Jia , Xing Zhou , Mingming Zhang , Weiqi He
{"title":"The priming effect of emotional words on body expressions: Two ERP studies","authors":"Bixuan Du , Shuxin Jia , Xing Zhou , Mingming Zhang , Weiqi He","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112370","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112370","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The impact of emotional words on the recognition of body expression and the underlying neurodynamic mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study used a classic supraliminal priming paradigm and event related potential (ERP) to investigate the effect of emotion-label words (experiment 1) and emotional verbs (experiment 2) on the recognition of body expressions. The behavioral results revealed that individuals exhibited a higher accuracy in recognizing happy expressions when presented with a happy-label word condition, in contrast to neutral expressions. Furthermore, it was observed that the accuracy of recognizing happy body expressions was reduced when preceded by angry verb priming, compared to happy and neutral priming conditions. Conversely, the accuracy of recognizing angry body expressions was higher in response to angry verb priming than happy and neutral primings. The ERP results showed that, in the recognition of happy body expressions, the P300 amplitude elicited by angry-label words was more positive, while a congruent verb-expression condition elicited more positive P300 amplitude than an incongruent condition in the left hemisphere and midline. However, in the recognition of angry body expressions, the N400 amplitude elicited by a congruent verb-expression condition was smaller than that elicited by an incongruent condition. These results suggest that both abstract emotion-label words and specific emotional verbs influence the recognition of body expressions. In addition, integrating happy semantic context and body expression might occur at the P300 stage, whereas integrating angry semantic context and body expression might occur at the N400 stage. These findings present novel evidence regarding the criticality of emotional context in the recognition of emotions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"202 ","pages":"Article 112370"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141157455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Organization of Psychophysiology","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0167-8760(24)00067-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8760(24)00067-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"200 ","pages":"Article 112363"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141094922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lorenzo Mattioni , Carlo Sestieri , Mauro G. Perrucci , Marcantonio M. Spada , Francesca Ferri
{"title":"The role of interoceptive awareness in shaping the relationship between desire thinking and cigarette consumption","authors":"Lorenzo Mattioni , Carlo Sestieri , Mauro G. Perrucci , Marcantonio M. Spada , Francesca Ferri","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112369","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112369","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Interoception, the ability to sense and interpret bodily sensations, has recently emerged as a crucial factor in substance use disorders, including smoking. However, the role of interoceptive awareness in tobacco use remains poorly understood. The relationship between interoceptive ability and addictive behavior is complex, and attempting to conceptualize it as a linear association is unlikely to fully capture the complexity of the mechanisms underlying cravings and urges. We hypothesized that the role played by interoceptive awareness in tobacco use is deeply linked to desire thinking, that is, the conscious and voluntary cognitive process orienting to prefigure images, information, and memories about positive target-related experiences. Desire thinking is typically observed in addiction, where it may contribute to interpreting specific bodily sensations, such as the perceived need for a cigarette. From this perspective, the physiological impact and inclination toward desire thinking contribute to a higher daily cigarette consumption, particularly in situations of low interoceptive awareness. To test this hypothesis, we assessed the physiological activation, the tendency toward desire thinking about smoking, cigarette consumption, and the interoceptive abilities of smoking volunteers. Through a moderation analysis, we showed that desire thinking about smoking predicts a higher number of cigarettes per day in individuals with lower interoceptive awareness (<em>p</em> < .05). These findings suggest that the relationship between desire thinking and interoceptive awareness is a fundamental component of tobacco use, highlighting the importance of taking into account the bodily feedback deriving from the cognitive representation of smoking in addiction research and therapy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 112369"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167876024000734/pdfft?md5=76732196f7c3fefa3e57ebb03690761a&pid=1-s2.0-S0167876024000734-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141071423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cong Fan , Huanxin Wang , Dingyu Liu , Jiayi Sun, Fengxu Han, Weiqi He
{"title":"Proposer's moral identity modulates fairness processing in the ultimatum game: Evidence from behavior and brain potentials","authors":"Cong Fan , Huanxin Wang , Dingyu Liu , Jiayi Sun, Fengxu Han, Weiqi He","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112360","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112360","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Economic decision-making is pivotal to both human private interests and the national economy. People pursue fairness in economic decision-making, but a proposer's moral identity can influence fairness processing. Previous ERP studies have revealed that moral identity has an effect on fairness considerations in the Ultimatum Game (UG), but the findings are inconsistent. To address the issue, we revised the moral-related sentences and used the ERP technique to measure the corresponding neural mechanism. We have observed that the fairness effect in UG can be mirrored in both MFN and P300 changes, whereas the moral identity effect on fairness in UG can be reflected by MFN but not P300 changes. These findings indicate that the moral identity of the proposer can modulate fairness processing in UG. The current study opens new avenues for clarifying the temporal course of the relationship between the proposer's moral identity and fairness in economic decision-making, which is beneficial for understanding the influencing mechanism of fairness processing and fair allocations in complex social contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 112360"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140913408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalia Zhozhikashvili , Maria Protopova , Tatiana Shkurenko , Marie Arsalidou , Ilya Zakharov , Boris Kotchoubey , Sergey Malykh , Yuri G. Pavlov
{"title":"Working memory processes and intrinsic motivation: An EEG study","authors":"Natalia Zhozhikashvili , Maria Protopova , Tatiana Shkurenko , Marie Arsalidou , Ilya Zakharov , Boris Kotchoubey , Sergey Malykh , Yuri G. Pavlov","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112355","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112355","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Processes typically encompassed by working memory (WM) include encoding, retention, and retrieval of information. Previous research has demonstrated that motivation can influence WM performance, although the specific WM processes affected by motivation are not yet fully understood. In this study, we investigated the effects of motivation on different WM processes, examining how task difficulty modulates these effects. We hypothesized that motivation level and personality traits of the participants (<em>N</em> = 48, 32 females; mean age = 21) would modulate the parietal alpha and frontal theta electroencephalography (EEG) correlates of WM encoding, retention, and retrieval phases of the Sternberg task. This effect was expected to be more pronounced under conditions of very high task difficulty. We found that increasing difficulty led to reduced accuracy and increased response time, but no significant relationship was found between motivation and accuracy. However, EEG data revealed that motivation influenced WM processes, as indicated by changes in alpha and theta oscillations. Specifically, higher levels of the Resilience trait—associated with mental toughness, hardiness, self-efficacy, achievement motivation, and low anxiety—were related to increased alpha desynchronization during encoding and retrieval. Increased scores of Subjective Motivation to perform well in the task were related to enhanced frontal midline theta during retention. Additionally, these effects were significantly stronger under conditions of high difficulty. These findings provide insights into the specific WM processes that are influenced by motivation, and underscore the importance of considering both task difficulty and intrinsic motivation in WM research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 112355"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140892861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoyang Huang , Yuliu Sun , Ruiwen Tao , Kaikai Yan , Entao Zhang
{"title":"Morality or competence is more important? The effect of evaluation dimensions on ERP responses to neutral faces depends on contextual valence and self-relevance","authors":"Xiaoyang Huang , Yuliu Sun , Ruiwen Tao , Kaikai Yan , Entao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112358","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent studies have shown that the processing of neutral facial expressions could be modulated by the valence and self-relevance of preceding verbal evaluations. However, these studies have not distinguished the dimension (i.e., morality and competence) from verbal evaluations. In fact, there is a hot controversy about whether morality or competence receives more weight. Therefore, using the ERP technique, the current study aimed to address this issue by comparing the influence of morality and competence evaluations on behavioral and neural responses to neutral facial expressions when these evaluations varied with contextual valence and self-relevance. Our ERP results revealed that the early EPN amplitudes were larger for neutral faces after receiving evaluations about self relative to evaluations about senders. Moreover, the EPN was more negative after a competence evaluation relative to a morality evaluation when these evaluations were positive, while this effect was absent when these evaluations were negative. The late LPP was larger after a morality evaluation compared to a competence evaluation when these evaluations were negative and directed to self. However, no significant LPP effect between morality and competence evaluations was observed when these evaluations were positive. The present study extended previous studies by showing that early and late processing stages of faces are affected by the evaluation dimension in a top-down manner and further modulated by contextual valence and self-relevance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"200 ","pages":"Article 112358"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140844182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}