Stella Nicolaou , Daniel Vega , Josep Marco-Pallarés
{"title":"Opening the Pandora box: Neural processing of self-relevant negative social information","authors":"Stella Nicolaou , Daniel Vega , Josep Marco-Pallarés","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108982","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108982","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Curiosity is a powerful motivator of information-seeking behavior. People seek not only positive, but also aversive social information about others. However, whether people also seek unfavorable social information about themselves, as well as the neural mechanisms that may drive such seemingly counterintuitive behavior remain unclear. To address this gap, we developed a novel electroencephalography-compatible Social Incentive Delay (SID) task, which was implemented in 30 healthy young adults as they responded as fast as possible to a target to receive positive or avoid negative comments about their own or about others’ Instagram photos. Reaction times were slower for negative vs positive comments’ conditions, but only for participants’ own photos, revealing less motivation to avoid negative rather than seek positive self-relevant social feedback. Coherently, receiving negative feedback, as opposed to avoiding it, evoked larger amplitudes in the Reward Positivity (RewP) and FB-P3 time-range, especially for participants’ own photos, indicating that receiving a negative comment was more rewarding and more salient than not receiving any comment at all. Our findings challenge prior evidence suggesting that humans instinctively avoid aversive stimuli, and they shed light on the neurophysiological mechanisms that may underlie this counterintuitive behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108982"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew Moore , Alexandru D. Iordan , Yuta Katsumi , Monica Fabiani , Gabriele Gratton , Florin Dolcos
{"title":"Trimodal brain imaging: A novel approach for simultaneous investigation of human brain function","authors":"Matthew Moore , Alexandru D. Iordan , Yuta Katsumi , Monica Fabiani , Gabriele Gratton , Florin Dolcos","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108967","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108967","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While advancements have improved the extent to which individual brain imaging approaches capture information regarding spatial or temporal dynamics of brain activity, the connections between these aspects and their relation to psychological functioning remain only partially understood. Acquisition and integration across multiple brain imaging modalities allows for the possible clarification of these connections. The present review provides an overview of three complementary modalities — functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography/event-related potentials (EEG/ERP), and event-related optical signals (EROS) — and discusses progress and considerations for each modality, along with a summary of a novel protocol for acquiring them simultaneously. Initial evidence points to the feasibility of acquiring and integrating multiple measures of brain function that allows for addressing questions in ways not otherwise possible using traditional approaches. Simultaneous trimodal brain imaging in humans provides new possibilities for clarifying spatiotemporal dynamics of brain activity and for identifying multifaceted associations with measures of individual differences and important health outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108967"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142848554","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}
{"title":"MCBERT: A multi-modal framework for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder","authors":"Kainat Khan, Rahul Katarya","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108976","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108976","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Within the domain of neurodevelopmental disorders, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) emerges as a distinctive neurological condition characterized by multifaceted challenges. The delayed identification of ASD poses a considerable hurdle in effectively managing its impact and mitigating its severity. Addressing these complexities requires a nuanced understanding of data modalities and the underlying patterns. Existing studies have focused on a single data modality for ASD diagnosis. Recently, there has been a significant shift towards multimodal architectures with deep learning strategies due to their ability to handle and incorporate complex data modalities. In this paper, we developed a novel multimodal ASD diagnosis architecture, referred to as Multi-Head CNN with BERT (MCBERT), which integrates bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) for meta-features and a multi-head convolutional neural network (MCNN) for the brain image modality. The MCNN incorporates two attention mechanisms to capture spatial (SAC) and channel (CAC) features. The outputs of BERT and MCNN are then fused and processed through a classification module to generate the final diagnosis. We employed the ABIDE-I dataset, a multimodal dataset, and conducted a leave-one-site-out classification to assess the model's effectiveness comprehensively. Experimental simulations demonstrate that the proposed architecture achieves a high accuracy of 93.4 %. Furthermore, the exploration of functional MRI data may provide a deeper understanding of the underlying characteristics of ASD.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108976"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142900645","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}
Eric R. Velasco , Jaime F. Nabás , David Torrents-Rodas , Bárbara Arias , Rafael Torrubia , Miquel A. Fullana , Raül Andero
{"title":"The PAC1 receptor risk genotype does not influence fear acquisition, extinction, or generalization in women with no trauma/low trauma","authors":"Eric R. Velasco , Jaime F. Nabás , David Torrents-Rodas , Bárbara Arias , Rafael Torrubia , Miquel A. Fullana , Raül Andero","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108981","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108981","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Women are known to have twice as much lifetime prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as men do. It has been reported that the risk genotype (CC) of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (rs2267735) in the pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP-PAC1R) system is associated with PTSD risk and altered fear conditioning and fear extinction in women. Surprisingly, no previous work has studied the effect of this SNP on fear conditioning, extinction, or generalization in non-traumatized/low trauma load women. Here, two separate groups of women underwent either a two-day fear conditioning and fear extinction paradigm, or a one-day fear conditioning and fear generalization paradigm. Results showed no significant differences between genotypes in conditioned stimulus discrimination, during fear acquisition, extinction, or generalization. These findings suggest that the previously reported fear processing impairments in traumatized CC women are not a consequence of this genotype alone, but likely dependent on the interaction between this genetic risk and the exposure to traumatic stressors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108981"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142904070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qianglong Wang , Yankui Su , Ping Song , Anthony A. Vivino , Rongbao Li
{"title":"The impact of self-esteem and interpersonal relationships on the processing of verbal violence: Evidence from ERPs","authors":"Qianglong Wang , Yankui Su , Ping Song , Anthony A. Vivino , Rongbao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.108984","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.108984","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The perception of verbal violence is a critical component in the chain of its negative impacts. This study utilized event-related potentials (ERPs) to explore the impact of self-esteem and interpersonal relationships on the processing of verbal violence. Seventy-three participants completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and a verbal violence ERP task. Stimuli depicting verbal violence were presented as violent words within a fixed sentence structure. The interpersonal relationships, represented by the positions of the subjects in the sentences, suggested different sources of verbal violence, including friends and strangers. Participants were asked to evaluate their feelings regarding the verbal violence after each sentence presentation. Behavioral results indicated that self-esteem and interpersonal relationships influenced the ratings of verbal violence. ERP results showed that as self-esteem scores increased, the EPN amplitude for verbal violence from friends was significantly enhanced, while the EPN for verbal violence from strangers remained unaffected. Self-esteem and interpersonal relationships also significantly influenced the LPC amplitude for verbal violence. These findings provide preliminary evidence that self-esteem and interpersonal relationships jointly influence the processing of verbal violence. Future research should continue to examine the specific effects of interpersonal relationships and explore other factors that may modulate the perception of verbal violence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108984"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933713","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}
{"title":"How individuals evaluate the confidence of advice from advisors with high- and low-status: A behavioural and ERP study","authors":"Xinying Wang , Xiaoyang Huang , Entao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108978","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108978","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although previous studies have shown that both advisors’ social status and confidence level affect advisees’ advice-taking behavior, it is currently unclear the mechanisms of their common actions. Here, using event-related potentials, we investigated how both advisors’ social status and confidence level independently or jointly influence advice-taking behavior. Specifically, participants were asked to make choices in a dot-estimation task and then they would receive high- and low-confidence advice from advisors with high- and low-status. Behaviorally, an interaction effect between advisors’ status and confidence was found, suggesting that individuals were more likely to take high-confidence (vs. low-confidence) advice whether it was from high-status or low-status advisors. However, such an effect of confidence was larger for high-status advisors rather than for low-status advisors. On the electrophysiological level, during the early stage of processing advice, an interaction effect between advisors’ status and confidence was only observed on the theta power rather than the FRN component, suggesting that the larger theta power was observed for low-confidence (vs. high-confidence) advice from low-status advisors rather than high-status advisors. Besides, although the larger P3 and beta power were found for advice from high-status advisors (vs. low-status advisors) or advice with high-confidence (vs. low-confidence), no interaction effect between status and confidence was found. Taken together, our findings suggested that advisors’ status and confidence might affect the multiple stages in different ways during processing advice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108978"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142886511","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}
Alexandra T. Tyra, Sarah-Beth Garner, Annie T. Ginty
{"title":"Examining the association between habitual emotion regulation strategies and cardiovascular stress reactivity across three studies","authors":"Alexandra T. Tyra, Sarah-Beth Garner, Annie T. Ginty","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108966","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108966","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Poor emotion regulation is associated with cardiovascular disease risk, with altered cardiovascular responses to psychological stress a possible underlying mechanism. However, prior research has predominantly focused on instructed (laboratory-based) emotion regulation; there is limited conclusive research on the relationship between every-day (habitual) emotion regulation and cardiovascular responses to active psychological stress. As such, this study aimed to examine the associations between two common habitual emotion regulation strategies—cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression—and cardiovascular stress responses across three independent laboratory studies, each involving a different active acute psychological stress task. Participants (Study 1: <em>N</em> = 239, 64.9 % female; Study 2: <em>N</em> = 289, 51.9 % female, Study 3: N = 169, 50.9 % female) underwent cardiovascular monitoring during a 10-min baseline and subsequent stress task (Study 1: mental arithmetic task; Study 2: speech task; Study 3: Multisource Interference/Stroop tasks). Participants also completed the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and ratings of perceived task stressfulness. Cardiovascular reactivity (stress mean – baseline mean) was calculated for systolic/diastolic blood pressure and heart rate for each study. Across all three studies, regression analyses demonstrated no statistically significant linear associations between habitual emotion regulation and cardiovascular reactivity (<em>p</em>s ≥ .10) or self-reported perceived stress (<em>p</em>s ≥ .06), both before and after controlling for demographic covariates. This investigation furthers our understanding of how habitual emotion regulation strategies may—or may not—impact cardiovascular stress responses, thus providing valuable insights into the complex relationship between emotion regulation and long-term cardiovascular health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108966"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142840211","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}
{"title":"The intrinsic functional connectivity of psychopathy and its relation to self-control","authors":"Jia Hao Kng, Lizhu Luo, Olivia Choy, Junhong Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108979","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108979","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous research has found functional connectivity in various networks to be altered in psychopathy and has theorised a link between these networks and the self-control-related deficits observed in psychopathy. However, this theory has yet to be tested adequately and empirically. The present study investigated the association between psychopathy, self-control, and intrinsic functional connectivity in 179 healthy adults from the MPI Leipzig Mind Brain Body dataset. Participants completed an affective switching task and questionnaires relating to psychopathy and self-control and underwent resting-state fMRI scans. Functional connectivity matrices were extracted for each subject, and network-based statistics was used to identify intrinsic resting-state functional networks associated with psychopathy scores. Significant networks that are positively and negatively associated with psychopathy emerged in the analyses. The functional connections that correlated positively with psychopathy was mostly characterised by strong connections between the default mode network and salience network, while the functional connections negatively correlated with psychopathy was largely characterised by strong within-dorsal attention network connectivity. Both the psychopathy-associated positive and negative networks were significantly correlated with measures of self-control and impulsivity. Furthermore, the negative network mediated the relationship between psychopathy and affective task-switching. Findings suggest that alterations in intrinsic functional connectivity are significantly implicated in psychopathy; these alterations possibly account for some self-control related deficits observed in psychopathy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108979"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916554","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}
Miroslaw Wyczesany , Anna Leśniewska , Constantin Winker , Michal Domagała , Thomas Kroker , Patrycja Kałamała , Tomasz S. Ligeza , Maimu Alissa Rehbein , Kati Roesmann , Ida Wessing , Markus Junghöfer
{"title":"Stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the perception of affective faces. An effective connectivity analysis","authors":"Miroslaw Wyczesany , Anna Leśniewska , Constantin Winker , Michal Domagała , Thomas Kroker , Patrycja Kałamała , Tomasz S. Ligeza , Maimu Alissa Rehbein , Kati Roesmann , Ida Wessing , Markus Junghöfer","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108980","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108980","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is widely linked with emotional phenomena, including appraisal, modulation, and reward processing. Its perigenual part is suggested to mediate the appetitive value of stimulation. In our previous study, besides changes in evoked MEG responses, we were able to induce an apparent behavioral bias toward more positive valence while interpreting the ambiguous, morphed faces after the effect of excitatory tDCS stimulation of the perigenual ventromedial cortex (pgVM). In the present study, we reanalyze these data to reveal the importance of functional links between the vmPFC and other brain areas during the perception of emotional (fearful or happy) faces. Using the Directed Transfer Function method, we estimated MEG source-based effective connectivity on the 1.5 sec epochs during the passive presentation of facial stimuli in two counterbalanced sessions, preceded by either an excitatory or inhibitory tDCS session. We observed a prominent session effect as the connectivity changed after excitatory compared to inhibitory stimulation. These included increased outflows from the pgVM to most analyzed cortical regions, especially in the right hemisphere, a massive decrease in source activity in the right temporal region, and increased transfer of visual information towards many network nodes. Some interaction effects were also visible, with no involvement of the pgVM itself but with other nodes of the considered network. Overall, our data show that the stimulation focused at the pgVM elicited widespread network effects, including the areas mediating attention, visual processing, and emotions, as well as those associated with regulatory functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108980"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916553","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}
{"title":"Deficits of proactive control in individuals with test anxiety: Evidence from ERPs","authors":"Lei Wang , Renlai Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.108985","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.108985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Proactive control in cognitive control is characterized by an individual's ability to maintain representations of goal-relevant information prior to responding to prevent conflicts. Text anxiety is a situation-specific personality trait characterized by excessive fear and worry about exams, accompanied by emotional issues. Individuals with high test anxiety exhibit deficiencies in cognitive control capabilities, but whether there is a defect in proactive control remains unclear. In this study, ERP technology was used to record the brain electrical activity of participants with high and low test anxiety during the performance of the AX-CPT task, and the difference in proactive control ability between the two groups of participants was examined. Behaviorally, individuals with high test anxiety(HTA) exhibited significantly lower accuracy rates in all three conditions compared to those with low test anxiety, and also showed a lower d' Context index. In terms of neural indicators, participants with HTA showed a significantly lower CNV component in the BX pairs than those with low test anxiety, HTA individuals lack the ability to actively maintain cues. Additionally, higher amplitudes of the N2 and P3 were generated in the AY and BX pairs, high test anxiety individuals require more cognitive resources to inhibit cognitive conflict. Results suggests that individuals with HTA exhibit deficiencies in proactive control abilities. This study explores the relationship between such deficits and test anxiety.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 108985"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967321","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}