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{"title":"Evaluating changes in proficiency using the task-irrelevant probe technique with event-related brain potentials","authors":"Kohei Fuseda,&nbsp;Motohiro Kimura,&nbsp;Fumie Sugimoto,&nbsp;Yuji Takeda,&nbsp;Masaaki Onuki,&nbsp;Motoyuki Akamatsu,&nbsp;Ken Kihara","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109200","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109200","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Proficiency refers to the level of skill needed to perform a specific task. While proficiency is typically evaluated in terms of a certain task-performance criterion, it does not always represent meeting or failing the criterion. Even when the same task-performance criterion is met, the psychological energy (i.e., attentional resources) required to meet the criterion can vary depending on the individual’s proficiency. The present study investigated whether or not changes in proficiency while meeting a certain task-performance criterion can be evaluated by the task-irrelevant probe technique, which estimates the amount of attentional resources required to meet the criterion by measuring event-related brain potentials (ERPs) elicited by sensory stimuli (i.e., probes) unrelated to the task. Participants repeatedly performed a driving task using a simulator (i.e., once a week for four weeks). The task required them to drive to a destination while meeting a predefined criterion of steering control. Task-irrelevant auditory probes were presented during driving, and auditory-evoked potentials (AEPs) elicited by the auditory probes during driving that met the predefined criterion were analyzed. The results showed that the amplitude of AEPs (i.e., P2) increased over four weeks, indicating that the attentional resources required to meet the predefined criterion decreased through repetitions of the task. This result suggests that the task-irrelevant probe technique is useful for evaluating changes in proficiency from the perspective of changes in attentional resources required to meet a certain task-performance criterion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 109200"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145982055","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 impact of emotional states on bilingual adaptive control across different switching frequency contexts: An ERP study","authors":"Shuang Liu ,&nbsp;Dongxue Liu ,&nbsp;Siyi Jiang ,&nbsp;John W. Schwieter ,&nbsp;Baoguo Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109203","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109203","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emotional states influence how bilinguals adapt their language control strategies in different contexts. The Adaptive Control Hypothesis (ACH) posits that bilinguals adjust control mechanisms based on contextual demands, yet the role of emotional states in this process remains unclear. This study examines how emotional states (positive, negative, and neutral) modulate bilingual control by manipulating contextual control demands through language-switching frequencies (25 %, 50 %, 75 %) in a picture-naming task. Behavioral and electrophysiological data from Chinese-English bilinguals revealed that emotional states influenced the adaptive adjustment to contextual control demands. Specifically, negative states elicited faster responses, larger N2 effects, and smaller LPC effects in the 50 % switching context, suggesting that the control system selectively counteracts emotional disruption, thereby optimizing language switching efficiency. In positive states, no accuracy differences or ERP (N2, LPC) variations were observed across switching contexts, while in neutral states, language switch costs and ERP differences were present, suggesting that enhanced cognitive flexibility and attention allocation help individuals to adapt better to language control demands across contexts. Overall, our findings extend the ACH by highlighting the dynamic role of emotional states in bilingual language control.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 109203"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146047393","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":"Relationships between interoceptive accuracy/attention and well-being: Insights from heartbeat and temperature perception","authors":"Hikaru Koike ,&nbsp;Michio Nomura","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interoception, defined as the perceptual process of internal bodily states, supports various emotional and cognitive processes. However, the current understanding of how different psychological processes based on interoception influence well-being remains limited. In this study, 76 university students (mean age = 20.96 years) completed the heartbeat counting task, thermal matching task, and questionnaires regarding beliefs for interoceptive accuracy/attention and well-being. We investigated correlations between each indicator of interoception and then examined their direct associations with each aspect of well-being. The results of the hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that belief in interoceptive accuracy, measured using the Interoceptive Accuracy Scale, positively predicted overall well-being, and this relationship was stronger when heartbeat perception performance was lower. Additionally, belief in interoceptive attention positively predicted feelings of physical illness. Such relationships were not observed in temperature perception. These findings suggest that the contribution of interoception to well-being depends on both its aspects and modalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"204 ","pages":"Article 109192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145982056","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":"Influence of arterial baroreflex on psychological distress: Arterial baroafferent signals attenuate social pain evoked by social exclusion","authors":"Tsubasa Izaki ,&nbsp;Kei Ishii ,&nbsp;Ryota Asahara ,&nbsp;Hidehiko Komine","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increased feedback from arterial baroreceptors, which is a mechanism to maintain blood pressure (BP) by regulating heart rate (HR) and systemic vascular tone, attenuates physical pain. Since physical pain and social pain partially share neural pathway, we hypothesized that the baroafferent feedback attenuates social as well as physical pain. To test this hypothesis, we examined the effect of the baroafferent stimulation using neck suction (NS) on social pain, HR, and BP responses to the cyberball task. Participants performed the cyberball task without NS (no NS condition), with NS (active NS condition), and NS with a cushion wrapped around the upper neck to suppress carotid sinus extension (sham NS condition). HR was decreased during the task only in the active NS condition, whereas BP was unchanged in all conditions. The task-induced social pain was attenuated in the active NS condition compared with the other conditions. No significant correlation was found between the HR response and social pain score. These findings suggest that augmented afferent signals in the arterial baroreflex pathway attenuate social pain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 109189"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145919157","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":"Test anxiety spares behavioral performance but alters ERP response in working memory updating","authors":"Hua Wei ,&nbsp;Jiating Gao ,&nbsp;Jiali Sun ,&nbsp;Zhenni Jin ,&nbsp;Fangfang Long","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2026.109190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Individuals with high test anxiety may invest more cognitive effort than individuals with low test anxiety when performing working memory updating tasks. In contrast, when task demand increases, these compensatory strategies are not successful, and updating is more likely to be impaired. Therefore, test anxiety exerts minimal effects on updating when task demands are relatively low but becomes increasingly detrimental as task demands increase. However, few studies have explored these issues. In Experiment 1, we used n-back tasks across various difficulty levels (0-back, 1-back, 2-back, 3-back) to compare behavioral performance (RTs, <span>d</span>-prime) between individuals with high and low test anxiety. In Experiment 2, we used ERP measures to compare neurophysiological differences between individuals with high and low test anxiety when completing the more challenging 2-back and 3-back tasks. Both experiments showed that test anxiety did not significantly affect behavioral performance, irrespective of task difficulty. ERP data from Experiment 2 showed reduced P3b amplitude while completing both the 2-back and 3-back tasks for individuals with high test anxiety, compared to those with low test anxiety. In conclusion, individuals with high test anxiety demonstrate impaired updating, marked by reduced cognitive engagement and unsuccessful use of compensatory strategies. Our findings show that test anxiety alters neurophysiological processes involved in working memory updating, as indicated by ERP changes, while behavioral performance remains intact.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 109190"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145936492","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":"Decreased top-down attention modulation and compensatory recruitment of perception representation in vigilance performance after sleep deprivation","authors":"Yuqi Zhou ,&nbsp;Tian Xie ,&nbsp;Zehui Liu ,&nbsp;Biao Han ,&nbsp;Ning Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109185","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109185","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Vigilance is crucial to daily life, but is highly vulnerable to sleep deprivation (SD). Although prior work attributes SD-related vigilance decline to impaired fronto-parietal function, how sleep loss alters the information-processing processes that support vigilant attention remains unclear. To address this gap, we linked single-trial event-related potentials (ERPs) to psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) performance using a linear mixed-effects model (LMM) across two sessions: normal sleep (NS) and 24-h SD. Forty-three participants completed the PVT in both sessions, with electroencephalography (EEG) recording. Results showed that vigilance performance deteriorated after SD, accompanied by delayed latencies of early ERP components and reduced amplitude of late components. Single-trial LMM analyses indicated that early ERPs predicted vigilance performance in both conditions, but with a delayed onset and stronger effect under SD. Critically, late attention-related ERPs only predicted vigilance in the NS condition, with no evident ERP-performance correlation after SD. These findings suggest that SD alters the information-processing pattern underlying vigilance—weakening top-down control and shifting reliance to earlier, stimulus-driven perceptual processing, which might serve as a partial compensation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 109185"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145764542","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":"Longitudinal relation of family dysfunction to young adults’ social anxiety: Sex and baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia matter","authors":"Yunxin Zhao ,&nbsp;Jingyi Xu ,&nbsp;Hui Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109177","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aim of the study was to examine the longitudinal association between family dysfunction and young adults’ social anxiety two years later, and the moderating roles of participant sex and baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (Baseline RSA). 109 Chinese college students (<em>M</em> = 18.94 years old, <em>SD</em> = 0.92; 69 males) participated in two waves of data collection two years apart. Participants reported their perceived family dysfunction and social anxiety, and physiological data were collected to capture their baseline RSA. Results indicated family dysfunction, baseline RSA, and participant sex interactively predicted college students’ later social anxiety. Specifically, for females, poorer T1 family dysfunction was associated with severer T2 social anxiety symptoms only among those with low (but not high) levels of baseline RSA at Time 1. Nonetheless, no significant associations were found for males. Findings underscore the importance of simultaneous consideration of individual and contextual factors in understanding young adults’ social adjustment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 109177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145745517","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":"Corrigendum to “Partial recognition: The P3 marks the top-down similarity between task-relevant targets and presented stimuli” [Biological Psychology 202 (2025) 109158]","authors":"Michiel Spapé,&nbsp;Aotong Li,&nbsp;Ran Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 109186"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145919059","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":"Neural mechanisms underlying the depression-reducing effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction in university students: A Rs-fMRI study","authors":"Xiaonan Zhan ,&nbsp;Huibiao Li ,&nbsp;Ke Chen ,&nbsp;Youmei Chen ,&nbsp;Xin Zhao ,&nbsp;Jianhao Zhou ,&nbsp;Hong Liu ,&nbsp;Zheng Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109174","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Depression constitutes a major global public health burden, with university students exhibiting a disproportionately high prevalence of depressive symptoms. Although Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) has demonstrated efficacy in alleviating depressive symptomatology, its underlying neurobiological mechanisms remain incompletely understood. This randomized controlled trial investigated neural activity changes and functional connectivity alterations of MBSR's depression-reducing effects in university students using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Forty-two healthy university students were randomly assigned to either an 8-week MBSR intervention or a control group. Clinical outcomes were assessed using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21, and rs-fMRI data were acquired to examine regional brain activity and functional connectivity. Results demonstrated that MBSR participants exhibited greater improvements in depression scores compared to the control group. Neuroimaging analyses indicated that MBSR intervention led to reduced Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (ALFF), fractional ALFF, and Regional Homogeneity in the right middle cingulate cortex (MCC). Furthermore, seed-based functional connectivity analysis demonstrated decreased connectivity between the right MCC and regions involved in emotional regulation and self-referential processing, including the left hippocampus and bilateral precuneus, in the MBSR group relative to controls. Furthermore, changes in MCC-hippocampus and MCC-precuneus functional connectivity were negatively correlated with improvements in depression scores. These findings provide novel evidence that MBSR promotes adaptive neural reorganization, characterized by reduced activity and altered functional connectivity within the MCC-centric emotional regulation network, providing mechanistic insight into for its depression-reducing effects in subclinical populations and supporting the neural efficiency hypothesis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 109174"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145679353","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":"Introduction to VSI: Revealing the dynamic nature of brain oscillations underlying cognitive processes","authors":"Chi-Hung Juan ,&nbsp;Philip H. Tseng","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"203 ","pages":"Article 109173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145645963","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}