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{"title":"Priority states modulate attentional interference from visual working memory representations: Electrophysiological evidence","authors":"Ai-Su Li ,&nbsp;Jan Theeuwes ,&nbsp;Yang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In everyday life, attention is guided by goals stored in visual working memory (VWM). To efficiently complete multiple sequential tasks, attention must focus on the current task while preventing interference from future goals held in a low-activation state within VWM. However, no prior study has directly distinguished the attentional interference from highly activated and lowly activated VWM representations. Using the high-temporal-resolution of event-related potentials (ERPs), the present study investigated the interaction between attentional selection and VWM representations with different priority states. Three priority levels of VWM were manipulated: (1) an item actively held and prioritized for immediate relevance, (2) an item stored but currently unprioritized—potentially relevant for future tasks, and (3) a neutral item never kept in VWM. During a visual search task following the memory phase, a distractor appeared opposite the target, matching the prioritized VWM (prioritized condition) or the unprioritized VWM (unprioritized condition) representation, or being memory-irrelevant (neutral condition). Behaviorally, response times were significantly slower in the prioritized condition compared to the unprioritized and neutral conditions, with no reliable difference between the latter two. In line with behavioral results, ERPs analyses revealed no reliable differences in target-locked late N2pc amplitudes (275–335 ms) between the neutral and unprioritized conditions, while the amplitude was significantly enhanced in the prioritized condition. These findings suggest that attentional interference from VWM-matching distractors flexibly depends on the priority states of VWM representations: only the prioritized VWM representation interacts with attention, whereas the unprioritized VWM representation does not.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109080"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144563372","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":"Special 50th Anniversary Issue of Biological Psychology","authors":"Thomas Ritz,&nbsp;Joseph Dien","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109076","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109076"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144531233","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":"Unveiling the neural correlates of prospective memory: An ecological EEG study","authors":"Paola Santacesaria ,&nbsp;Stefano Vicentin ,&nbsp;Sara Zago ,&nbsp;Giorgio Arcara ,&nbsp;Giorgia Cona","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109083","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ability to remember intentions for future actions is a fundamental aspect of human functioning in everyday life. This process is typically studied in laboratory settings with tasks designed to isolate it, but these often lack ecological validity because they may not fully capture the complexity and variability of prospective memory (PM) in real-world contexts. The present exploratory study was designed to overcome these limitations. Firstly, participants watched a movie simulating to be home on their sofa. They then continued to watch the movie on their \"smart TV\", while simultaneously maintaining and executing intentions related to everyday activities, such as \"virtual cooking\". Neurophysiological activity was recorded during these tasks using an hd-EEG system to investigate the role of brain oscillations in strategic monitoring processes involved in PM. Power spectral density was analyzed across the theta, alpha, and high beta frequency bands. Administration of time-based and event-based instructions in an ecological context revealed two distinct patterns of brain activity. Time-based PM was characterized by widespread and sustained fronto-temporal activation, along with pronounced engagement of high beta frequencies in prefrontal areas. Event-based PM was associated with theta and alpha power localized to focal areas of the occipito-parietal lobes. According to the PM literature, modulations of theta and alpha oscillations are associated with attentional mechanisms for rehearsing different PM intentions in memory. The involvement of high beta frequencies in the time-based PM condition, already associated with temporal abilities, highlights their role in determining optimal timing for retrieval of future intentions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109083"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144631500","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":"Can fMRI functional connectivity index dynamic neural communication and cognition?","authors":"Sonsoles Alonso ,&nbsp;Alberto Llera ,&nbsp;Diego Vidaurre","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To support self-generating cognition and behaviour, neural communication must be highly flexible and dynamic, but also structured. While whole-brain fMRI measures have revealed robust yet changing patterns of statistical dependencies between regions, it is unclear whether these statistical patterns —referred to as functional connectivity (FC)— can reflect dynamic large-scale communication in a way that is relevant to human cognition; or just reflect, for example, homeostatic processes. For FC to reflect cognition, and therefore actual communication, we propose that <em>at least</em> three conditions must be met: it must span sufficient temporal complexity to support cognition’s demands while being highly organized so that the system behaves reliably; it must be able to adjust to behavioural circumstances; and it must exhibit fluctuations at timescales compatible with cognition’ timescales. We trained multiple models of time-varying FC on fMRI data from the Human Connectome Project across three behavioural conditions: at rest, during a working memory task, and a motor task; and characterised them using Principal Component Analysis. We show that FC follows low- yet multi-dimensional trajectories that can be reliably measured, and that these trajectories can satisfy the aforementioned requirements. Although these are necessary but not sufficient conditions, it remains possible that time-varying FC may potentially index key aspects of neural communication underlying cognitive function.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109074"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144366885","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":"Association of negative affect with resting heart rate variability in medical students","authors":"Ivan Belica ,&nbsp;Filip Blasko ,&nbsp;Ivan Sleziak ,&nbsp;Katarina Jansakova ,&nbsp;Maria Vidosovicova ,&nbsp;Kristina Simon Klenovics ,&nbsp;Ivan Szadvari ,&nbsp;Rastislav Vazan ,&nbsp;Jana Haramiova ,&nbsp;Radana Gurecka ,&nbsp;Katarina Ondicova ,&nbsp;Katarina Babinska ,&nbsp;Gabriela Repiska ,&nbsp;Jaroslava Babkova ,&nbsp;Boris Mravec","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Resting heart rate variability (HRV) reflects rhythmic changes in heart rate over time associated with autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. It has served as a predictor of health and the development of various diseases. Therefore, it is important to determine factors that could potentially influence HRV. The aim of our study was to investigate whether negative affect is associated with resting HRV, heart rate and blood pressure (BP). The research sample consisted of 425 medical students (294 women) (mean age 20.8 ± 1.5 years). Exclusion criteria included the presence of any significant medical condition and/or the use of any related medications. HRV was measured for 5 min in the supine position. Predictor variables included neuroticism (NEO-FFI), perceived stress over the past month (PSS-10), state anxiety (STAI-X1). Covariates included sex, age, BMI, allergy, physical activity, sleep quality, respiration rate. Dependent variables included logarithmically transformed (ln) HRV parameters (RMSSD, HF, SDNN, LF), heart rate, ln systolic and ln diastolic BP. Hierarchical linear regression was used for statistical analysis, and a Bonferroni correction was applied to the p-value of the change in the coefficient of determination. Resting HRV, heart rate, and BP were not statistically significantly associated with neuroticism, perceived stress, or state anxiety. Our results demonstrated a lack of association between negative affect and resting cardiac ANS activity in the sample of non-clinical young adults.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109073"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144337214","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":"Dynamic functional connectivity differences between insomnia and comorbid insomnia with depression: A neuroimaging study of brain stability","authors":"Zhangwei Lv ,&nbsp;Haobo Zhang ,&nbsp;Yuhan Fan ,&nbsp;Yuxian Wei ,&nbsp;Zilu Zhang ,&nbsp;Hong Yuan ,&nbsp;Lin Zhu ,&nbsp;Xu Lei","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109071","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies have shown a complex, possibly bidirectional relationship between insomnia disorder (ID) and major depressive disorder (MDD). Neuroimaging evidence suggests the different functional connectivity (FC) of the ID and MDD patients. However, most existing studies rely on static FC analysis, and no direct comparison has been made between ID patients and those with comorbid ID and MDD (IMD). There is rare study to capture the impact of depressive symptoms on the dynamic brain properties of ID patients. To address this gap, the present study used a novel method to calculate the stability of brain dynamic FC (sDFC) based on the sliding window approach. And this method was utilized to compare the dynamic brain properties between ID and IMD patients. Independent samples t-tests identified differences in the sDFC between the ID (n = 47) and IMD (n = 50) groups, and Pearson's correlations examined relationships between sDFC and sleep quality, insomnia symptom severity, and depressive symptoms severity in IMD patients. Results showed increased sDFC in the right supramarginal gyrus and left precuneus in IMD patients, and decreased sDFC in the bilateral putamen, bilateral thalamus, right superior frontal gyrus (SFG), and right middle frontal gyrus. In IMD group, sDFC in the left precuneus was positively correlated with depressive symptoms, while sDFC in the right putamen was negatively correlated with insomnia symptoms, and in the left putamen and right SFG, it was negatively correlated with depressive symptoms. This study is the first to directly compare dynamic brain properties between ID and IMD patients. The result provides a deeper understanding of how co-occurring depression in ID patients affects brain dynamics. The findings highlight potential target brain regions for future neuromodulation interventions, which could enable more effective and personalized treatments for patients with both ID and MDD.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109071"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144295419","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 influence of facial expression absence on the recognition of different emotions: Evidence from behavioral and event-related potentials studies","authors":"Juan Song ,&nbsp;Jingyuan Liang ,&nbsp;Ming Che ,&nbsp;Gaoxin Han","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109072","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Facial expressions convey rich information in emotional communication but are not always accessible in all social contexts. In such situations, bodily expressions serve as critical cues for accurate emotion recognition. The reliance on facial expressions differs between basic and complex emotions, reflecting distinct underlying processing mechanisms. This study investigates how the absence of facial expressions influences the recognition of these two types of emotions. Participants viewed full-body images depicting basic and complex emotions, either with both facial and bodily expressions visible, or with the facial region occluded to remove facial information. They judged the emotional congruence between the images and preceding emotional words. The ERP study included only female participants, considering potential gender differences in emotion recognition mechanisms. Behavioral results revealed that the absence of facial expressions significantly reduced the accuracy and speed of emotion recognition, with a greater impact on basic emotions than on complex ones. ERP data further demonstrated distinct processing patterns: larger N170 amplitudes were observed for congruent word-image pairs, and stronger N400 responses occurred when facial expressions were present, indicating enhanced early and mid-stage integration of emotional information. LPP amplitudes were generally higher in congruent conditions, and were further enhanced for complex emotions when faces were present, and for basic emotions when faces were absent. These findings highlight the essential role of facial expressions in facilitating basic emotion recognition, while complex emotions rely more heavily on bodily cues for effective processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109072"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144295420","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":"Tonotopic effects on temporal-based pitch perception of transposed tones: Insights from Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis","authors":"Chao-Yin Kuo ,&nbsp;I-Hui Hsieh","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Natural sounds, whether music or conspecific communications, frequently contain multiple amplitude modulation (AM) components. AM, the temporal envelope of sounds, plays a critical role in pitch perception. However, how multiple AM components distribute across tonotopic region of the human cochlea to form pitch percepts remains unclear. To address this, we examine human judgments of multi-tone stimuli with systematically combined amplitude envelopes and carrier frequencies in pitch discrimination, pitch matching, and melodic contour identification tasks. Results reveal that a single amplitude envelope of multi-tones dominates pitch perception, rather than integrating uniformly across the cochlear spectrum as conventionally believed. Specifically, participants accurately discriminate pitch differences when two multi-tones differed only in the temporal envelope modulating the lowest-frequency carrier. In contrast, pitch discrimination accuracy dropped to below chance when the differing temporal envelope modulated higher-frequency carriers. Varying the number of tones or shifting carrier frequencies across different tonotopic regions did not alter AM-envelope-based pitch percepts. Additionally, nonlinear Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis confirmed that pitch percepts corresponded to the AM frequency with the highest energy. These findings demonstrate that pitch perception relies heavily on amplitude dynamics determined by cochlear tonotopic position, underscoring the critical interplay between envelope and carriers in processing complex pitch.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109070"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144287164","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 effect of exercise interventions on executive function in individuals with Parkinson’s disease: A meta-analysis of main and moderator effects","authors":"Cheng-Liang Chang ,&nbsp;Sz-Yan Wu ,&nbsp;Daphne I. Ling ,&nbsp;Chia-Liang Tsai","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109061","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109061","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Given the uncertainty surrounding the most effective exercise prescription variables (frequency, intensity, type, duration) and the impact of Parkinson’s disease (PD) characteristics (illness duration, age, severity, baseline cognitive status, levodopa dosage) on different subdomains of executive function (EF) improvement, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis with moderator analysis to assess these effects.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Six electronic databases (Embase, PubMed, MEDLINE, Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, AGELINE) were searched by two independent authors. Clinical trials published before April 2024 that reported the effect of chronic exercise on EF in individuals with PD were included.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Of 608 identified studies, 18 studies met eligibility criteria. The overall effect size (ES) of exercise on EF was small but positive and significant (ES= 0.21, <em>p</em> &lt; .001). Among EF subdomains, cognitive flexibility showed significant improvement. Regarding exercise prescription, larger ES were observed for high (≥2 per week) frequency, moderate to vigorous intensity, mind-body exercise, and 45–60 min for each session. Sample characteristics such as older age, high levodopa equivalent daily dosage (LEDD) (≥600 mg/day), and baseline cognitive impairment were found to attenuate the effect of exercise on EF.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Exercise is a promising non-pharmacological intervention for enhancing EF in PD, particularly improving cognitive flexibility. Mind-body exercises appear particularly effective. Recommended programs should be moderate to vigorous in intensity, lasting 45–60 min, and conducted at least twice weekly for 13–16 weeks. The benefits of exercise diminish with age and with LEDD exceeding 600 mg/day. Additionally, PD patients with cognitive impairments may experience reduced benefits. Early exercise engagement is recommended, while disease severity and duration have minimal impact.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109061"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144239305","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":"Interoception research 40 years later – Revisiting James Pennebaker’s critique","authors":"Thomas Ritz","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fourty years ago, James Pennebaker and colleagues criticized five implicit assumptions of interoception research at that time. These addressed the behavioral relevance of perceiving single autonomic response measures, the generalization of interoceptive abilities across organ systems and experimental paradigms, the necessity of excluding the influence of external stimuli from interoception, and the conscious access to visceral activity that is behaviorally relevant. This review revisits these assumptions and examines the extent to which they are still relevant for current interoception research by providing inspiration and challenge for the field. Pennebaker’s own response to these issues was an expanded model of symptom perception that emphasized the importance of cognitive biases, personality, and external stimuli, with the potential to better inform behavior in naturalistic settings and clinical practice. The currently renewed interest in interoception profits much from the introduction of brain imaging methods, which provide an opportunity to expand on Pennebaker’s perspective and add a new dimension to our understanding of mind-body interactions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 109069"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250926","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}