TY - JOUR AU - J., Leon Kenemans AU - Iris, Schutte AU - Sam, Van Bijnen AU - Logemann, Herman Nico Alexander TI - How salience enhances inhibitory control: An analysis of electro‐cortical mechanisms JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 177 PY - 2023 PG - 11 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108505 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32727860 ID - 32727860 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Dudschig, Carolin TI - Language and non-linguistic cognition: Shared mechanisms and principles reflected in the N400 JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 169 PY - 2022 PG - 13 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108282 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33434646 ID - 33434646 AB - Language is a core cognitive faculty. Research on language processing is typically carried out independently of research within other cognitive domains. However, it has been proposed that language shares basic sensorimotor features with non-linguistic cognition at the representational level. The present paper investigates whether processing principles are also shared between linguistic and non-linguistic cognition; specifically, it is investigated whether the N400 is sensitive to global and local manipulations of violation probability as previously reported for markers of non-linguistic conflict detection. In Experiment 1, the global violation probability was manipulated. Here, N400 amplitude was reduced in high violation probability blocks compared to low violation probability blocks. In Experiment 2, N400 amplitude was analysed according to local trial sequence. Here, the N400 amplitude difference between correct and violated sentences was reduced when the preceding trial was a violation compared to a correct trial. The implication of these findings for the architecture of our cognitive system is discussed. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Schroeder, Benedikt AU - Muehlberger, Andreas TI - Assessing the attentional bias of smokers in a virtual reality anti-saccade task using eye tracking JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 172 PY - 2022 PG - 12 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108381 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33371050 ID - 33371050 AB - Introduction: Cognitive biases (among them attentional bias, AB) are considered an important factor in the development, maintenance, and recurrence of addiction. However, traditional paradigms to measure AB have been criticized regarding external validity and methodical issues. Therefore, and because the neurophysiological correlates of anti-saccade tasks are known, we implemented a novel smoking anti-saccade task in virtual reality (VR) to measure AB and inhibitory control in different contexts and with higher ecological validity. Methods: Smokers (n = 20) and non-smokers (n = 20) were tested on a classic pro- and anti-saccade task, a VR anti-saccade task and a VR attention fixation task (all containing smoking-related and neutral stimuli) while eyetracking data was collected. Two VR contexts (park and office room) were applied. Results: Saccade latencies were significantly higher for the smoking group in the VR anti-saccade task. However, this effect did not differ between smoking-related and neutral stimuli, thus overall no AB was observed. Instead, AB was only present in the park context. Additionally, saccade latencies and error rates were significantly higher in the park context. Conclusions: Results indicate impaired inhibitory control in smokers relative to non-smokers. The lack of evidence for a general AB might be due to the lower severity of smoking dependence in the smoking sample. Instead, results suggest context specificity of AB. Implications for smoking cessation interventions in the field of inhibitory control training and attention bias modification are discussed. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Polver, Silvia AU - Quadrelli, Ermanno AU - Turati, Chiara AU - Bulf, Hermann TI - Decoding functional brain networks through graph measures in infancy: The case of emotional faces. JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 170 PY - 2022 PG - 9 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108292 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33338760 ID - 33338760 AB - Graph measures represent an optimal way to investigate neural networks' organization, yet their application is still limited in developmental samples. To uncover the organization of 7-month-old infants' functional brain networks during an emotional perception task, we combined a decoding technique (i.e., Principal Component Regression) to graph metrics computation. Nodes' Within Module Degree Z Score (WMDZ) was computed as a measure of modular organization, and we decoded networks' functional organizations across EEG alpha and theta bands in response to static and dynamic facial expressions of emotions. We found that infants' brain topological activity differentiates between static and dynamic emotional faces due to the involvement of visual streams and sensorimotor areas, as often observed in adults. Moreover, network invariances point toward an already present rudimental network structure tuned to face processing already at 7-months of age. Overall, our results affirm the fruitfulness of the application of graph measures in developmental samples, due to their flexibility and the wealth of information they provide over infants' networks functional organization. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Schienle, A. AU - Scheucher, J. AU - Zorjan, S. TI - Affective touch during the processing of angry facial expressions: an event-related potential study JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 175 PY - 2022 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108433 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33334953 ID - 33334953 N1 - Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, BioTechMed Graz, Austria Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia Export Date: 14 December 2022 CODEN: BLPYA Correspondence Address: Schienle, A.; Clinical Psychology, Universitätsplatz 2/III, Austria; email: anne.schienle@uni-graz.at LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Brown, Carina S. AU - Amir, Nader TI - The moderating effect of anxiety diagnosis on the relationship between error-related negativity and anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 175 PY - 2022 SP - 8443 EP - 8443 PG - 12 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108443 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33319422 ID - 33319422 N1 - Export Date: 14 December 2022 CODEN: BLPYA Correspondence Address: Amir, N.; Center for Understanding and Treating Anxiety (CUTA), 6386 Alvarado Court, Suite 301, United States; email: namir@mail.sdsu.edu AB - Anxiety sensitivity (AS) refers to fear of anxiety symptoms that are believed to result in physical (Physical Concerns), cognitive (Cognitive Concerns), or social (Social Concerns) harm. AS is implicated in a range of anxiety disorders and may propel maladaptive behaviors by increasing action monitoring systems in order to prevent errors. Indeed, anxious individuals are characterized by elevated neural responses to errors, as indexed by the error-related negativity (ERN). In the current study we examined the moderating effect of clinical diagnosis on the relationship between scores on the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI-3) and the ERN in an unselected sample (N = 124) of women. Based on semi-structured clinical interviews, participants were classified as belonging to an anxiety group (AD), a clinical control group (CC), and a healthy non-clinical group (HC). Participants completed an arrowhead version of the Flanker task while we collected electroencephalogram (EEG) data. Analyses revealed that diagnostic group moderated the association between residualized ERN (ERNResid) and Cognitive Concerns, such that the AD group demonstrated a significantly stronger and more negative association compared to the HC group. Our results indicate that the relationship between ERNResid and Cognitive Concerns is strongest in individuals characterized by elevated anxiety. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Wong, A.H.K. AU - Pittig, A. TI - Avoiding a feared stimulus: Modelling costly avoidance of learnt fear in a sensory preconditioning paradigm JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 168 PY - 2022 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108249 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33265474 ID - 33265474 N1 - Cited By :5 Export Date: 24 November 2022 CODEN: BLPYA Correspondence Address: Wong, A.H.K.; Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I, Marcusstraße 9-11, Germany; email: hon.wong@uni-wuerzburg.de LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Baker, Kristen S. AU - Yamamoto, Naohide AU - Pegna, Alan J. AU - Johnston, Patrick TI - Violated expectations for spatial and feature attributes of visual trajectories modulate event-related potential amplitudes across the visual processing hierarchy JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 174 PY - 2022 PG - 13 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108422 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33233738 ID - 33233738 AB - During visual perception, the brain must combine its predictions about what is to be perceived with incoming relevant information. The present study investigated how this process interacts with attention by using event-related potentials that index these cognitive mechanisms. Specifically, this study focused on examining how the amplitudes of the N170, N2pc, and N300 would be modulated by violations of expectations for spatial and featural attributes of visual stimuli. Participants viewed a series of shape stimuli in which a salient shape moved across a set of circular locations so that the trajectory of the shape implied the final position and shape of the stimulus. The final salient stimuli occurred in one of four possible outcomes: predictable position and shape, predictable position but unpredictable shape, unpredictable position but predictable shape, and unpredictable position and shape. The N170 was enhanced by unpredictable positions and shapes, whereas the N300 was enlarged only by unpredictable positions. The N2pc was not modulated by violations of expectations for shapes or positions. Additionally, it was observed post-hoc that the P1pc amplitude was increased by unpredictable shapes. These findings revealed that incorrect prediction increases neural activity. Furthermore, they suggest that prediction and attention interact differently in different stages of visual perception, depending on the type of attention being engaged: The N170 indexes initial prediction error signalling irrespective of the type of information (spatial or featural) in which error occurs, followed by the N300 as a marker of prediction updating involving reorientation of spatial attention. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Suzuki, Kota TI - Proportion compatibility effects on visual mismatch negativity in a flanker task JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 175 PY - 2022 PG - 11 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108431 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33218408 ID - 33218408 AB - Proportion compatibility effects, in which task performance for compatible stimuli is improved in blocks con-sisting of mostly compatible stimuli (MC blocks) and task performance for incompatible stimuli is improved in blocks consisting of mostly incompatible stimuli (MI blocks), are common in interference tasks. This study addressed proportion compatibility effects on visual mismatch negativity (VMMN) in the flanker task, which consisted of compatible, incompatible, and deviant stimuli. Compatible and incompatible stimuli were arrays of five black arrows. Deviant stimuli were created by the black central arrow and red surroundings of equal signs. The flanker task was conducted in MC and MI blocks, and blocks with an equal probability (EP blocks) of compatible, incompatible, and deviant stimuli. The posterior negativity from 200 to 250 ms for deviant stimuli was significantly more negative in the MC than in the EP blocks. However, there was no difference in the posterior negativity from 200 to 250 ms between MI and EP blocks. These results indicate that VMMN for deviant stimuli was observed in the MC blocks but not in the MI blocks. In addition, the posterior negativity for incompatible stimuli was modulated by the probability of incompatible stimuli. In contrast, modulation by the probability was not found in the posterior negativity for compatible stimuli. The results indicate that VMMN was elicited by incompatible stimuli but not by compatible stimuli. These findings suggest that proactive control in the MI blocks may attenuate processing in an irrelevant visual field. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Fischer-Jbali, Laura Rachel AU - Montoro, Casandra Isabel AU - Montoya, Pedro AU - Halder, Wolfgang AU - Duschek, Stefan TI - Central nervous activity during a dot probe task with facial expressions in fibromyalgia JF - BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY J2 - BIOL PSYCHOL VL - 172 PY - 2022 PG - 11 SN - 0301-0511 DO - 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108361 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33217695 ID - 33217695 AB - Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic pain condition accompanied by affective symptoms and cognitive impairments. This study investigated central nervous correlates of attentional and emotional processing in FMS. Therefore, event-related potentials were recorded in 26 FMS patients and 26 healthy controls during a dot probe task, which required participants to decide which side of the screen an asterisk was displayed on; the asterisk was immediately preceded by a facial expression (anger, pain, happiness, neutral) on the left or right side. Comorbid depression was also assessed. In patients, N170 amplitude was smaller for anger and pain expressions than for happy expressions, and P2 was greater for pain expressions than for happy expressions. N170 and P2 were unaffected by emotional expressions in controls. LPC was smaller overall in patients than controls. Though re-action times were longer overall in patients than controls, no behavioral effects of emotional stimuli arose in these groups. In contrast, FMS patients with comorbid depression showed less attentional interference due to emotional expressions, and less difficulty disengaging from these stimuli than patients without depression. While the observations concerning N170 suggested facilitated encoding of facial features representing negative rather than positive emotions in FMS and more automatized processing of pain expressions, those for P2 indicated increased attentional resource allocation to pain-related information. Reduced LPC reflects nonspecific deficits in sustained attention in FMS, which is in line with the longer reaction times. Behavioral data suggest lower pro-cessing depth of emotional information in patients with comorbid depression. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -