{"title":"Listen to the beat: Behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of slow and fast heartbeat sounds","authors":"Stefano Vicentin , Sara Guglielmi , Giulia Stramucci , Patrizia Bisiacchi , Elisa Cainelli","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112447","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112447","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Listening to heartbeat sounds have been found to affect cardiac activity and behavior. However, less is known about the effects of these stimuli on brain activity and cognition. Alpha oscillations (8–13 Hz) are considered markers of cortical activation. Frontal alpha Asymmetry (FαA) reflects the valence attributed to the stimulus and the tendency to approach/avoid it.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>This study investigates the effects of sounds mimicking heart pulsations at different rhythms on reaction times and neurophysiological activity.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>EEG data were collected during a resting-state condition and two Simple Reaction Time tasks (SRT), during which artificially generated heartbeat sounds at fast (120 bpm, <em>FastBeat</em> condition) or slow (60 bpm, <em>SlowBeat</em> condition) rhythms were administered. Alpha power was compared across the three conditions. Differences in the SRT and FαA values were examined between the FastBeat and SlowBeat conditions.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Compared to the resting-state condition, decreased alpha activity over bilateral frontocentral regions was observed in both tasks. The comparison between the FastBeat and the SlowBeat conditions revealed faster response times, a pattern of alpha suppression over right frontal regions, and lower FαA values in the former.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The similarity of alpha reductions elicited in the comparison between the resting-state and the two task conditions suggests that these patterns were ascribable to processes common to both conditions (SRT task, auditory stimulation). In contrast, the differences between the two conditions suggest that fast heartbeat sounds are perceived as more adverse and stressful stimuli, inducing cortical activation over regions associated with negative states and avoidant tendencies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 112447"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481232","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}
{"title":"Registered Report Stage II: Decoding the category information from evoked potentials to visible and invisible visual objects","authors":"Bingbing Li, Shuhui Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112446","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112446","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies that use decoding methods and EEG to investigate the neural representation of the category information of visual objects focused mainly on consciously processed visual objects. It remains unclear whether the category information of unconsciously processed visual objects can be decoded and whether the decoding performance is different for consciously and unconsciously processed visual objects. The present study compared the neural decoding of the animacy category of visible and invisible visual objects via EEG and decoding methods. The results revealed that the animacy of visible visual objects could be decoded above the chance level by the P200, N300, and N400, but not by the early N/P100. However, the animacy of invisible visual objects could not be decoded above the chance level by neither early nor late ERP components. The decoding accuracy was greater for visible visual objects than that for invisible visual objects for the P200, N300 and N400. These results suggested that access to animacy category information for visual objects requires conscious processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 112446"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142402037","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}
Christian P. Janssen, Iris Schutte, J. Leon Kenemans
{"title":"Does level of cognitive load affect susceptibility?","authors":"Christian P. Janssen, Iris Schutte, J. Leon Kenemans","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We compared how different levels of cognitive load affect frontal P3 (fP3) Event-Related Potential (ERP) to novel sounds. Previous studies demonstrated the predictive value of the probe-elicited frontal P3 (fP3) ERP for subsequent detection failures. They also demonstrated how fP3 is reduced when performing visual and/or manual and/or cognitively demanding tasks. These results are consistent with fP3 indexing orienting to novels or, more neutrally: susceptibility. Here, we tested how fP3 is affected by a threefold variation of cognitive load induced by the verb (generation) task. Participants heard a noun and either listened to it, repeated it, or generated a semantically related verb. These conditions were manipulated between groups. One group (<em>N</em> = 16) experienced the listen and repeat condition; the other group (<em>N</em> = 16) experienced the listen and generate condition. When fP3 was probed 0 or 200 ms after noun offset, it was reduced (relative to no noun) only while repeating or generating, not while listening. An additional probe-elicited ERP was identified as novelty-related negativity, and its contaminating influence on fP3 estimation accounted for by a novel vector-filter procedure. We conclude that cognitive load does not affect fP3-indexed susceptibility. Instead, fP3-indexed susceptibility is affected by presentation of the stimulus, with the most pronounced effect in conditions where a vocal response is needed (i.e., repeat or generate, but not listen), independent of the complexity of the response.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 112443"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395424","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}
{"title":"Associations between intraindividual reaction time variability, baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and trait impulsivity in males with substance use disorders","authors":"Xin Li, Zhenhong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112445","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112445","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Trait impulsivity, characterized by the tendency to act without adequate consideration of potential consequences in pursuit of immediate rewards, is a recognized vulnerability marker for substance use disorders (SUDs). Cognitive control deficits are implicated in the manifestation of high trait impulsivity, and intraindividual reaction time variability (IIRTV), an indicator of cognitive control, may influence trait impulsivity. Baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reflects vagal tone, serves as an index of physiological self-regulation, which has been demonstrated to be related to trait impulsivity. However, it is unclear whether IIRTV is associated with trait impulsivity and whether it interacts with baseline RSA to influence trait impulsivity. A total of 113 males with SUDs participated (<em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 46.04 years, <em>SD</em> = 11.53) in this study. Trait impulsivity was assessed using a self-report questionnaire, IIRTV was measured through a two-choice oddball task, and baseline RSA was obtained through the collection of electrocardiogram (ECG) data. The results indicated that IIRTV interacted with baseline RSA to influence trait impulsivity. These findings suggested that cognitive control indexed by IIRTV, might represent a central nervous correlate of trait impulsivity, and that it interacted with vagal tone indexed by baseline RSA, to influence trait impulsivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 112445"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142382511","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}
Sachiyo Ozawa , Hironori Nakatani , Carlos Makoto Miyauchi
{"title":"Unpleasant emotions and task-unrelated thoughts and their associations with amygdala activity during emotional distraction: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study","authors":"Sachiyo Ozawa , Hironori Nakatani , Carlos Makoto Miyauchi","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112442","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112442","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous emotion regulation studies revealed that emotional distraction decreases unpleasant emotions. This study examined whether distraction tasks decrease unpleasant task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) and unpleasant emotions when recalling stressful daily interpersonal events. Amygdala activity was examined to assess implicit emotional changes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The behavioral data of 20 university students (mean age: 20.35 ± 1.42 years; range: 18–24 years) and fMRI data of 18 students were examined. As an emotion induction procedure, participants initially freely recalled memories of daily stressful interpersonal events and then responded to a series of questions about their recalled memories presented on a monitor. In the distraction experiment, the questions were re-represented as an emotional stimulation; a distraction task (nonconstant or constant finger tapping) or rest condition was then performed, and ratings were given for attentional state, thought types conceived during the tasks, and emotional state. Decreases in unpleasant emotions and TUTs were defined as distraction effects. We found that unpleasant TUTs decreased in the nonconstant relative to rest condition (<em>p</em> < .05). Furthermore, increased right amygdala activation positively correlated with unpleasant emotions, and bilateral amygdala activation correlated with unpleasant TUTs only in the rest condition, indicating the existence of amygdala activation associated with unpleasant emotions and thoughts. However, such associations were not under nonconstant or constant conditions, indicating distraction effects. Notably, this study showed that emotional distraction can decrease the degree of unpleasant emotions and the occurrence of unpleasant thoughts regarding common daily emotions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 112442"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142378632","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":"EEG might be better left alone, but ERPs must be attended to: Optimizing the late positive potential preprocessing pipeline","authors":"Brittany A. Larsen, Francesco Versace","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112441","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112441","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The late positive potential (LPP) is an ERP component commonly used to study emotional processes and has been proposed as a neuroaffective biomarker for research and clinical uses. These applications, however, require standardized procedures for elicitation and ERP data processing.</p><p>We evaluated the impact of different EEG preprocessing steps on the LPP's data quality and statistical power. Using a diverse sample of 158 adults, we implemented a multiverse analytical approach to compare preprocessing pipelines that progressively incorporated more steps: artifact detection and rejection, bad channel interpolation, and bad segment deletion. We assessed each pipeline's effectiveness by computing the standardized measurement error (SME) and conducting simulated experiments to estimate statistical power in detecting significant LPP differences between emotional and neutral images.</p><p>Our findings highlighted that artifact rejection is crucial for enhancing data quality and statistical power. Voltage thresholds to reject trials contaminated by artifacts significantly affected SME and statistical power. Once artifact detection was optimized, further steps provided minor improvements in data quality and statistical power. Importantly, different preprocessing pipelines yielded similar outcomes.</p><p>These results underscore the robustness of the LPP's affective modulation to preprocessing choices and the critical role of effective artifact management. By refining and standardizing preprocessing procedures, the LPP can become a reliable neuroaffective biomarker, supporting personalized clinical interventions for affective disorders.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 112441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142274423","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}
Giuseppe A. Carbone , Aurelia Lo Presti , Benedetto Farina , Mauro Adenzato , Rita B. Ardito , Claudio Imperatori
{"title":"Resting-state EEG microstates predict mentalizing ability as assessed by the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test","authors":"Giuseppe A. Carbone , Aurelia Lo Presti , Benedetto Farina , Mauro Adenzato , Rita B. Ardito , Claudio Imperatori","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Microstates analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) has gained increasing attention among researchers and clinicians as a valid tool for investigating temporal dynamics of large-scale brain networks with a millisecond time resolution. Although microstates analysis has been widely applied to elucidate the neurophysiological basis of various cognitive functions in both clinical and non-clinical samples, its application in relation to socio-affective processing has been relatively under-researched. Therefore, the main aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between EEG microstates and mentalizing (i.e., the ability to understand the mental states of others). Eighty-two participants (thirty-six men; mean age: 24.28 ± 7.35 years; mean years of education: 15.82 ± 1.77) underwent a resting-state EEG recording and performed the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET). The parameters of the microstates were then calculated using Cartool v. 4.09 software. Our results showed that the occurrence of microstate map C was independently and positively associated with the RMET total score and contributed to the prediction of mentalizing performance, even when controlling for potential confounding variables (i.e., age, sex, education level, tobacco and alcohol use). Since microstate C is involved in self-related processes, our findings may reflect the link between self-awareness of one's own thoughts/feelings and the enhanced ability to recognize the mental states of others at the neurophysiological level. This finding extends the functions traditionally attributed to microstate C, i.e. mind-wandering, self-related thoughts, prosociality, and emotional and interoceptive processing, to include mentalizing ability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 112440"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167876024001442/pdfft?md5=2d41d82dbac3efa5a6d5621635b5b916&pid=1-s2.0-S0167876024001442-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142274422","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}
Hannah C. Levy , Adam J. Naples , Sarah Collett , James C. McPartland , David F. Tolin
{"title":"Central and peripheral physiological responses to decision making in hoarding disorder","authors":"Hannah C. Levy , Adam J. Naples , Sarah Collett , James C. McPartland , David F. Tolin","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112437","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112437","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Individuals with hoarding disorder (HD) have difficulty parting with personal possessions, which leads to the accumulation of excessive clutter. According to a proposed biphasic neurobiological model, HD is characterized by blunted central and peripheral nervous system activity at rest and during neutral (non-discarding) decisions, and exaggerated activity during decision-making about discarding personal possessions. Here, we compared the error-related negativity (ERN) and psychophysiological responses (skin conductance, heart rate and heart rate variability, and end tidal CO<sub>2</sub>) during neutral and discarding-related decisions in 26 individuals with HD, 37 control participants with anxiety disorders, and 28 healthy control participants without psychiatric diagnoses. We also compared alpha asymmetry between the HD and control groups during a baseline resting phase. Participants completed a series of Go/No Go decision-making tasks, one involving choosing certain shapes (neutral task) and the other involving choosing images of newspapers to imaginally “discard” (discarding task). While all participants showed expected increased frontal negativity to commission of an error, contrary to hypotheses, there were no group differences in the ERN or any psychophysiological measures. Alpha asymmetry at rest also did not differ between groups. The findings suggest that the ERN and psychophysiological responses may not differ in individuals with HD during simulated discarding decisions relative to control participants, although the null results may be explained by methodological challenges in using Go/No Go tasks as discarding tasks. Future replication and extension of these results will be needed using ecologically valid discarding tasks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 112437"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172758","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}
Alexander T. Duda, Adam R. Clarke, Robert J. Barry
{"title":"Mindfulness meditation alters neural oscillations independently of arousal","authors":"Alexander T. Duda, Adam R. Clarke, Robert J. Barry","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112439","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112439","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Neuroscience has identified that mindfulness meditation induces a state of relaxed alertness, characterised by changes in theta and alpha oscillations and reduced sympathetic arousal, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This study aims to address this gap by examining changes in neural oscillations and arousal during mindfulness meditation using both traditional and data-driven methods. Fifty-two healthy young adults underwent electroencephalography (EEG) and skin conductance level (SCL) recordings during resting baseline and mindfulness meditation conditions, both conducted with eyes closed. The EEG data revealed a significant decrease in traditional alpha (8–13 Hz) amplitude during mindfulness meditation compared to rest. However, no significant differences were observed between conditions in traditional delta, theta, beta, or gamma amplitudes. Frequency Principal Components Analysis (fPCA) was employed as a data-driven approach, identifying six components consistent across conditions. A complex delta-theta-alpha component significantly increased during mindfulness meditation. In contrast, low alpha (~9.5 Hz) and low alpha-beta (~11 Hz) components decreased significantly during mindfulness meditation. No significant differences were observed between conditions in the delta, high alpha, and high alpha-beta components. Additionally, there were no significant differences in SCL between conditions, nor were there correlations between traditional alpha or fPCA components and SCL. These findings support the conceptualisation of mindfulness meditation as a state of relaxed alertness, characterised by changes in neural oscillations likely associated with attention and awareness. However, the observed changes do not appear to be driven by arousal.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 112439"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167876024001430/pdfft?md5=3f7bd5c48ab42db012a6689e440c7f6a&pid=1-s2.0-S0167876024001430-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142233643","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}
{"title":"Theories and hypotheses: The forgotten plane of the multiverse","authors":"Michael Richter , Guido H.E. Gendolla","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112438","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112438","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Multiverse analyses—the systematic examination of the effects of decisions that researchers can take over the course of a research project—became more common in recent psychophysiological research. However, multiverse analyses in psychophysiology almost exclusively focus on methodological and statistical decisions that can have a considerable impact on the findings. The role of the conceptual multiverse regarding theory-related research decisions is largely ignored. We argue that the choice of a theory that guides hypotheses, study design, measurement methods, and statistical analyses is the first plane of the psychophysiological multiverse. Depending on the chosen theoretical framework, researchers will choose different methods, and statistical analyses will emphasize specific aspects. We illustrate this process with a research example studying the effects of task difficulty manipulations on cardiovascular effects reflecting effort. We argue in favor of an approach that explicitly acknowledges the various theoretical accounts that can constitute the background of a study and demonstrate how a comparative analytical approach can provide a comprehensive multiverse without increasing type I error due to mere exploration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54945,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychophysiology","volume":"205 ","pages":"Article 112438"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167876024001429/pdfft?md5=5a293b6279ac80b96d960142a897feeb&pid=1-s2.0-S0167876024001429-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142274421","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}