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{"title":"Transcranial alternating current stimulation for investigating complex oscillatory dynamics and interactions","authors":"Samira Barzegar ,&nbsp;Carolina F.M. Kakies ,&nbsp;Dorina Ciupercӑ,&nbsp;Miles Wischnewski","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112579","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112579","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Neural oscillations play a fundamental role in human cognition and behavior. While electroencephalography (EEG) and related methods provide precise temporal recordings of these oscillations, they are limited in their ability to generate causal conclusions. Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) has emerged as a promising non-invasive neurostimulation technique to modulate neural oscillations, which offers insights into their functional role and relation to human cognition and behavior. Originally, tACS is applied between two or more electrodes at a given frequency. However, recent advances have aimed to apply different current waveforms to target specific oscillatory dynamics. This systematic review evaluates the efficacy of non-standard tACS applications designed to investigate oscillatory patterns beyond simple sinusoidal stimulation. We categorized these approaches into three key domains: (1) phase synchronization techniques, including in-phase, anti-phase, and traveling wave stimulation; (2) non-sinusoidal tACS, which applies alternative waveforms such as composite, broadband or triangular oscillations; and (3) amplitude-modulated tACS and temporal interference stimulation, which allow for concurrent EEG recordings and deeper cortical targeting. While a number of studies provide evidence for the added value of these non-standard tACS procedures, other studies show opposing or null findings. Crucially, the number of studies for most applications is currently low, and as such, the goal of this review is to highlight both the promise and current limitations of these techniques, providing a foundation for future research in neurostimulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 112579"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143902135","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":"No effects of proactive control on deviant processing in the central area in mostly compatible blocks of the flanker task","authors":"Kota Suzuki","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112580","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112580","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Behind the proportion compatibility effects in the flanker task, processing in the central area was hypothesized to be enhanced by proactive control in the mostly incompatible (MI) blocks compared with the mostly compatible (MC) blocks. This study aimed to examine this hypothesis and focused on deviant processing in the central area. A total of 45 adults performed the flanker task, which included central-deviant stimuli. Proportion deviance was manipulated by rare (15 %) and equiprobable (50 %) conditions in the MC and MI blocks. The color of the central and surrounding arrows was different and the same between the central-deviant and typical stimuli, respectively. Thus, deviant processing in the central area was evaluated based on a comparison of event-related potentials for the central-deviant stimuli between the rare and equiprobable conditions. The N1 difference and visual mismatch negativity for the central-deviant stimuli did not significantly differ between the MI and MC blocks. These results suggested that proactive control in the MI blocks had no effects on deviant processing in the central area, which contradicted the hypothesis. In addition, N1 for both the central-deviant and typical stimuli was significantly reduced in the MI blocks compared with the MC blocks, suggesting that the total amount of processing was reduced in the MI blocks compared with the MC blocks. These findings suggest that proactive control in the MI blocks functions to inhibit processing in the surrounding area; however, it does not enhance processing in the central area.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 112580"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143907682","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":"At the heart of couple conflict: Emotion regulation and cardiac reactivity","authors":"Katharina I. Salo ,&nbsp;Lisanne S. Pauw ,&nbsp;Ricarda I. Schubotz ,&nbsp;Anne Milek","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112581","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112581","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Adaptive emotion regulation can buffer against cardiac reactivity under acute stress. However, research on the effectiveness of emotion regulation in the face of interpersonal stress is scarce. We therefore conducted an experiment investigating whether emotion regulation might buffer against parasympathetically mediated cardiac reactivity during conflict. Couples engaged in a 10-min conflict discussion (N = 253 participants included in the final analyses). Prior to the discussion, one partner per couple was randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions (acceptance, cognitive reappraisal, control group). In both emotion regulation groups, the manipulated partner was instructed to apply either acceptance or cognitive reappraisal during the following conflict. Vagal (i.e., parasympathetic) activity as indexed by the heart rate variability (HRV) parameter RMSSD was assessed at baseline and during conflict. Cardiac reactivity was operationalized as the difference between baseline vagal activity and vagal activity during conflict. Both emotion regulation strategies significantly reduced cardiac reactivity in the manipulated partner as compared to the control group. We thus found preliminary support that emotion regulation may beneficially alter parasympathetically mediated cardiac reactivity during acute interpersonal stress.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 112581"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143912342","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":"Demonstration of impaired facial emotion perception in temporal lobe epilepsy by theta responses in EEG","authors":"Gözde Nezir ,&nbsp;Hakan Uzunlar ,&nbsp;Tuba Aktürk ,&nbsp;Bahar Güntekin ,&nbsp;Çiğdem Özkara","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112578","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112578","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Temporale lobe and occipito-temporal cortical areas play an important role in facial emotion perception (FEP). FEP might be represented by event-related brain oscillations. In patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), impairment of FEP was shown with behavioral and functional neuroimaging (FMRI, PET, MEG) but not event-related oscillations, which is a well known method for cognitive research studies. The present study aims to explore FEP by analyzing EEG event-related theta oscillations in patients with TLE.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>21 patients with TLE and 19 healthy volunteers were included. During EEG recording, 15 photographs from Ekman and Friesen's photo series showing five different facial expressions (angry, happy, neutral, fearful, sad) were used. Event-related theta (3–8 Hz) power spectrum and phase locking were analyzed by wavelet transform method using the Brain Vision Analyzer program.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The difference between TLE patients and healthy volunteers was found to be significant for theta power (<em>P</em> &lt; 0,05), but there was no significant difference between right and left TLE patients (<em>P</em> &gt; 0,05). Lower theta power was observed against all faces in the patient group, especially in temporo-parietal and parietal areas, compared to healthy volunteers (<em>P</em> &lt; 0,05). Patients with left TLE were significantly impaired in happy facial expressions, patients with right TLE were significantly impaired in fearful facial expressions.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Impaired FEP in patients with TLE is characterized by decreased event-related theta responses, particularly in temporo-parietal and parietal areas. The present study presents the electrophysiological indicators of impaired FEP in TLE patients for the first time in the literature. The current study could be a guide for future research related to neural networks in cognitive tasks and epilepsy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 112578"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143886656","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":"Alterations within and between intrinsic connectivity networks in cognitive interference resolution","authors":"Eylem Ümmü ,&nbsp;Elif Kurt ,&nbsp;Ali Bayram","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112577","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112577","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cognitive interference resolution (CIR) is the process of maintaining goal-directed focus despite the presence of distractions. While CIR has been extensively studied through localized activation analyses, its network-level dynamics remain underexplored with sufficient methodological diversity.</div><div>In this study, we investigated the task-modulated intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs) and their dynamic interactions with detailed subnetwork segmentation during CIR using fMRI data from 27 healthy adults performing the Multi-Source Interference Task (MSIT). We applied high-order group independent component analysis (ICA) to extract ICN subcomponents, followed by task-modulated component identification and dynamic functional connectivity analysis to examine network interactions.</div><div>Our results reveal that the dorsal attention network (DAN) and cognitive control network (CCN) show increased activation and connectivity, while the default mode network (DMN) and limbic network exhibit decreased activation and connectivity. Additionally, the visual and cerebellum networks emerge as key intermediaries in CIR, as DAN and CCN strengthen their connectivity with these networks rather than directly interacting with each other. Furthermore, network reconfiguration patterns suggest functional segregation within the somatomotor network and CCN, indicating specialized subcomponent contributions.</div><div>These findings provide a granular understanding of ICN activations and dynamic inter-network communication during CIR, offering new insights into the flexible reorganization of brain networks in response to cognitive interference.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 112577"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143892258","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(25)00063-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-8760(25)00063-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"211 ","pages":"Article 112567"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143835281","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":"Corrigendum to \"Exploring the relationship between sleep patterns, alcohol and other substances consumption in young adults: Insights from wearables and mobile surveys in the National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) cohort\" [Int. J. Psychophysiol. 209 (2025) 112524].","authors":"Oreste De Rosa, Luca Menghini, Erin Kerr, Eva Müller-Oehring, Kate Nooner, Brant P Hasler, Peter L Franzen, Duncan B Clark, Sandra Brown, Susan F Tapert, Kevin Cummins, Fiona C Baker, Massimiliano de Zambotti","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112576","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":" ","pages":"112576"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144053860","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":"Does outcome feedback similarly impact the processing of surprised faces in competitive and cooperative contexts? Evidence from ERP","authors":"Danyang Ran ,&nbsp;Zhuolun Wu ,&nbsp;Yiwen Li ,&nbsp;Shuaixia Li ,&nbsp;Wenbo Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112573","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112573","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Competition and cooperation are pervasive across diverse domains of human society, and outcome feedback in these contexts has been shown to significantly influence human emotional responses and behavioral strategies. However, there is limited understanding of the mechanisms through which outcome feedback in obstructive and supportive settings affects the perception of facial expressions of interactors. To address this issue, thirty-seven participants in this event-related potential (ERP) study completed a modified version of the Tetris game with randomly assigned interactors (cooperative supporter, competitive hinderer). After receiving outcome feedback (correct, incorrect), participants were asked to rate the valence of surprised faces which were assumed to be displayed by interactors. Behaviorally, surprised faces in supportive correct feedback contexts were rated as more pleasant, while those in obstructive correct feedback contexts were rated as less pleasant. The ERP results showed a significant main effect of outcome feedback on the FRN and LPP_feedback, with enhanced amplitudes for incorrect relative to correct trials. More importantly, face-related P1, N170, and EPN components showed significant interactions between interaction type and outcome feedback. Surprised faces in obstructive correct contexts evoked larger P1 amplitudes compared to those faces in obstructive incorrect contexts. Conversely, amplified N170 and EPN responses were observed for faces in supportive correct contexts compared to those in supportive incorrect contexts. For the LPP_face, an amplified response to faces was observed in correct feedback contexts compared to incorrect ones, irrespective of the influence of interaction type. Altogether, these findings offer the first empirical evidence that feedback cues in obstructive and supportive contexts can interactively influence the top-down processing of facial expressions, shifting attention away from the suppression of aversive stimuli towards a focus on self-related positive information, thus providing insights into the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the impact of complex social information on higher-order cognitive processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 112573"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143839371","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":"Heartfelt gaze: Cardiac afferent signals and vagal tone affect gaze perception","authors":"Yaojie Lin,&nbsp;Tomoko Isomura","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112564","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112564","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Perceiving others' gaze direction is an essential aspect of social interactions. The cone of direct gaze (CoDG) refers to the range within which an observer perceives a gaze as looking directly at them. Previous research has demonstrated that self-relevant exteroceptive cues can widen the CoDG. However, the effect of self-relevant interoceptive information on the CoDG remains unknown. This study investigated the contribution of cardiac afferent signals and vagal tone to the perception of gaze from others. We used a modified gaze discrimination task to synchronize face stimuli with various gaze directions to specific phases of the cardiac cycle. Results revealed that participants with higher heart rate variability (HRV) exhibited a wider CoDG during cardiac systole (when cardiac signals are maximally represented in the brain). However, no effect was observed during cardiac diastole (when cardiac signals are quiescent). Moreover, this effect was independent of individual differences in anxiety levels and autistic traits. These findings are evidence that individuals with greater cardiac vagal control are more sensitive to cardiac afferent signals during systole, which leads to a stronger self-directed perception of others' gaze under transient and ambiguous gaze perception conditions. Our findings highlight the self-referential role of cardiac interoceptive signals in gaze perception and expand our knowledge of interoceptive influences on social judgment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 112564"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143830418","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":"Short-term recovery sleep attenuates the impairment of response inhibition after total sleep deprivation: Evidence from an event-related potentials study","authors":"Nan Zhang ,&nbsp;Xinran Wu ,&nbsp;Ningye Cui ,&nbsp;Yongcong Shao ,&nbsp;Ying Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112563","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112563","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>Sleep deprivation is increasingly a problem in modern society. Therefore, understanding the restorative effects of short naps on cognitive function after sleep deprivation has considerable relevance. This study investigated changes in response inhibition function after 30 h of total sleep deprivation (TSD) and the impact of 1 h of recovery sleep (RS) on the recovery of this function.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Twenty-seven healthy male participants performed a visual Go/No-Go task while event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded. Response inhibition was assessed at three time points: at baseline (0 h of TSD), after 30 h of TSD, and after 1 h of RS.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The results from the behavioral indicators revealed a significant increase in reaction times to the Go stimuli (<em>p</em> = 0.013), a decrease in accuracy (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.001), and a substantial rise in the error rate for the No-Go stimuli (<em>p</em> = 0.001) after 30 h of TSD compared with baseline. After 30 h of TSD, there was no significant improvement in task performance after 1 h of RS. ERP analysis showed a significant prolongation of the latencies of N2 (<em>p</em> = 0.012) and P3 (<em>p</em> = 0.010), a significant increase in P3 amplitude (<em>p</em> = 0.048), and no significant change in N2 amplitude after TSD compared with that at baseline. After 1 h of RS, N2 amplitude significantly increased (<em>p</em> = 0.010) and P3 latency remained prolonged (<em>p</em> = 0.008).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>After thirty hours of sleep deprivation, the brain maintains task performance primarily through compensatory mechanisms. 1 h of RS partially ameliorates the impaired response inhibition caused by thirty hours of sleep deprivation, restoring this function closer to baseline levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"212 ","pages":"Article 112563"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143816970","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}