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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8760(25)00063-7

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Does outcome feedback similarly impact the processing of surprised faces in competitive and cooperative contexts? Evidence from ERP

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112573

Danyang Ran , Zhuolun Wu , Yiwen Li , Shuaixia Li , Wenbo Luo

Competition and cooperation are pervasive across diverse domains of human society, and outcome feedback in these contexts has been shown to significantly influence human emotional responses and behavioral strategies. However, there is limited understanding of the mechanisms through which outcome feedback in obstructive and supportive settings affects the perception of facial expressions of interactors. To address this issue, thirty-seven participants in this event-related potential (ERP) study completed a modified version of the Tetris game with randomly assigned interactors (cooperative supporter, competitive hinderer). After receiving outcome feedback (correct, incorrect), participants were asked to rate the valence of surprised faces which were assumed to be displayed by interactors. Behaviorally, surprised faces in supportive correct feedback contexts were rated as more pleasant, while those in obstructive correct feedback contexts were rated as less pleasant. The ERP results showed a significant main effect of outcome feedback on the FRN and LPP_feedback, with enhanced amplitudes for incorrect relative to correct trials. More importantly, face-related P1, N170, and EPN components showed significant interactions between interaction type and outcome feedback. Surprised faces in obstructive correct contexts evoked larger P1 amplitudes compared to those faces in obstructive incorrect contexts. Conversely, amplified N170 and EPN responses were observed for faces in supportive correct contexts compared to those in supportive incorrect contexts. For the LPP_face, an amplified response to faces was observed in correct feedback contexts compared to incorrect ones, irrespective of the influence of interaction type. Altogether, these findings offer the first empirical evidence that feedback cues in obstructive and supportive contexts can interactively influence the top-down processing of facial expressions, shifting attention away from the suppression of aversive stimuli towards a focus on self-related positive information, thus providing insights into the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the impact of complex social information on higher-order cognitive processes.

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Heartfelt gaze: Cardiac afferent signals and vagal tone affect gaze perception

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112564

Yaojie Lin, Tomoko Isomura

Perceiving others' gaze direction is an essential aspect of social interactions. The cone of direct gaze (CoDG) refers to the range within which an observer perceives a gaze as looking directly at them. Previous research has demonstrated that self-relevant exteroceptive cues can widen the CoDG. However, the effect of self-relevant interoceptive information on the CoDG remains unknown. This study investigated the contribution of cardiac afferent signals and vagal tone to the perception of gaze from others. We used a modified gaze discrimination task to synchronize face stimuli with various gaze directions to specific phases of the cardiac cycle. Results revealed that participants with higher heart rate variability (HRV) exhibited a wider CoDG during cardiac systole (when cardiac signals are maximally represented in the brain). However, no effect was observed during cardiac diastole (when cardiac signals are quiescent). Moreover, this effect was independent of individual differences in anxiety levels and autistic traits. These findings are evidence that individuals with greater cardiac vagal control are more sensitive to cardiac afferent signals during systole, which leads to a stronger self-directed perception of others' gaze under transient and ambiguous gaze perception conditions. Our findings highlight the self-referential role of cardiac interoceptive signals in gaze perception and expand our knowledge of interoceptive influences on social judgment.

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Short-term recovery sleep attenuates the impairment of response inhibition after total sleep deprivation: Evidence from an event-related potentials study

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112563

Nan Zhang , Xinran Wu , Ningye Cui , Yongcong Shao , Ying Zhang

Objectives

Sleep deprivation is increasingly a problem in modern society. Therefore, understanding the restorative effects of short naps on cognitive function after sleep deprivation has considerable relevance. This study investigated changes in response inhibition function after 30 h of total sleep deprivation (TSD) and the impact of 1 h of recovery sleep (RS) on the recovery of this function.

Methods

Twenty-seven healthy male participants performed a visual Go/No-Go task while event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded. Response inhibition was assessed at three time points: at baseline (0 h of TSD), after 30 h of TSD, and after 1 h of RS.

Results

The results from the behavioral indicators revealed a significant increase in reaction times to the Go stimuli (p = 0.013), a decrease in accuracy (p < 0.001), and a substantial rise in the error rate for the No-Go stimuli (p = 0.001) after 30 h of TSD compared with baseline. After 30 h of TSD, there was no significant improvement in task performance after 1 h of RS. ERP analysis showed a significant prolongation of the latencies of N2 (p = 0.012) and P3 (p = 0.010), a significant increase in P3 amplitude (p = 0.048), and no significant change in N2 amplitude after TSD compared with that at baseline. After 1 h of RS, N2 amplitude significantly increased (p = 0.010) and P3 latency remained prolonged (p = 0.008).

Conclusions

After thirty hours of sleep deprivation, the brain maintains task performance primarily through compensatory mechanisms. 1 h of RS partially ameliorates the impaired response inhibition caused by thirty hours of sleep deprivation, restoring this function closer to baseline levels.

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When alertness fades: Drowsiness-induced visual dominance and oscillatory recalibration in audiovisual integration 当警觉消失时昏昏欲睡诱发的视觉优势和视听整合中的振荡重新校准。

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112562

Claudio Artigas , Ricardo Morales-Torres , Felipe Rojas-Thomas , Mario Villena-González , Iván Rubio , Daniela Ramírez-Benavides , Tristán Bekinschtein , Germán Campos-Arteaga , Eugenio Rodríguez

Multisensory integration allows the brain to align inputs from different sensory modalities, enhancing perception and behavior. However, transitioning into drowsiness, a state marked by decreased attentional control and altered cortical dynamics, offers a unique opportunity to examine adaptations in these multisensory processes. In this study, we investigated how drowsiness influences reaction times (RTs) and neural oscillations during audiovisual multisensory integration. Participants performed a task where auditory and visual stimuli were presented either in a coordinated manner or with temporal misalignment (visual-first or auditory-first uncoordinated conditions).

Behavioral results showed that drowsiness slowed RTs overall but revealed a clear sensory dominance effect: visual-first uncoordination facilitated RTs compared to auditory-first uncoordination, reflecting vision's dominant role in recalibrating sensory conflicts. In contrast, RTs in coordinated conditions remained stable across alert and drowsy states, suggesting that multisensory redundancy compensates for reduced cortical integration during drowsiness.

At the neural level, distinct patterns of oscillatory activity emerged. Alpha oscillations supported attentional realignment and temporal alignment in visual-first conditions, while Gamma oscillations were recruited during auditory-first uncoordination, reflecting heightened sensory-specific processing demands. These effects were state-dependent, becoming more pronounced during drowsiness.

Our findings demonstrate that drowsiness fundamentally reshapes multisensory integration by amplifying sensory dominance mechanisms, particularly vision. Compensatory neural mechanisms involving Alpha and Gamma oscillations maintain perceptual coherence under conditions of reduced cortical interaction. These results provide critical insights into how the brain adapts to sensory conflicts during states of diminished awareness, with broader implications for performance and decision-making in real-world drowsy states.

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The relevance of accounting for parasympathetic as well as sympathetic arousal in threat conditioning: Methodological and clinical considerations

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112561

Lars Jaswetz , Lycia D. de Voogd , Eni S. Becker , Karin Roelofs

Alterations in associative threat learning have been thought to underlie the aetiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Recent insights into the facilitatory role of parasympathetic arousal for threat coping have raised the question whether individual differences in sympathetic versus parasympathetic dominance during threat learning may shed light on the complex relationship with anxiety vulnerability versus resilience. We applied an established differential-cue delay threat conditioning paradigm in 78 neurotypical individuals and assessed parasympathetic responses (threat-induced bradycardia), as well as sympathetic responses (threat-induced tachycardia and increased skin conductance responses-SCR). We found evidence that patterns of threat-induced bradycardia as well as tachycardia are present during associative learning. Threat bradycardia was linked to weaker initial conditioned SCRs (mainly driven by responses to the CS+), a finding that may be relevant for current common practice in the field of threat learning: namely participants with weak differential skin conductance responses - who according to frequently applied ‘SCR non-learner’ criteria are often considered non-learners and sometimes even excluded from analyses - were in fact showing successful learning in terms of parasympathetic arousal. Additionally, the presence of threat bradycardia as well as the magnitude of overall conditioned heart rate responses were linked to relatively lower trait anxiety. These findings not only have practical research implications but also clinical implications when assessing markers for anxiety vulnerability versus resilience.

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Eye movements in visual fixation predict behavioral response performance in sustained attention

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112560

Xiao-Yi Zhang , Zi-Yang Liu , Pei-Yan Li , Jing-Hua Wang , Yu-Feng Zang , Hang Zhang

Individuals naturally make eye movements over time during visual fixation and voluntarily perform changes in eye position. However, the functional implication of spontaneous changes of eye movements remains unclear. Given that visual fixation is commonly used as a baseline condition in cognitive experiments, we conducted an experiment using eye-tracking to test whether spontaneous fluctuations in eye position are linked to sustained attention. Eye-position data were collected while subjects performed visual fixation and a sustained attention task. We found that slow fluctuations (<0.2 Hz) in eye position correlated with slow fluctuations in response behavior [reaction time (RT)] during the sustained attention task. Further analysis revealed that off-task but not on-task slow fluctuations in eye position contributed to slow fluctuations in sustained attention behavior. The spontaneous fluctuations in eye position could predict the behavioral performance in sustained attention. These results provide new insights into the functional significance of eye movements during visual fixation, which should be considered in interpreting the findings of cognitive experiments using visual fixation as the baseline condition.

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Differences in brain function entropy due to cognitive impairment: Application of functional near infrared spectroscopy measures during dual-tasking

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112558

Kelsi Petrillo , Hossein Ehsani , Kubra Akbas , Meenakshi Dagar , Nima Toosizadeh

Screening guidelines for cognitive impairment are subjective and inconsistent, often leading to delayed diagnoses. An objective, simple method is needed. Dual-tasking, combined with brain function measurements, may provide sufficient cognitive cost to differentiate between healthy and cognitively impaired populations. It was hypothesized that low complexity (entropy) of brain activity is associated with cognitive impairment, and that dual-tasking would better differentiate between healthy and cognitively impaired groups over resting. Eighty-three participants were recruited: healthy young adults (HY; MoCA = 27.82 ± 1.63, age = 21.13 ± 2.36), cognitively normal older adults (CN; MoCA = 26.59 ± 1.92, age = 75.89 ± 6.93), and mild cognitively impaired/early-stage Alzheimer's disease older adults (MCI/AD; MoCA =18.96 ± 5.69, age = 78.62 ± 8.54). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measured brain activity during a rest and dual-task involving flexion and serial subtraction. The area under the curve (AUC) of multiple scale entropy outcomes was averaged by functional brain regions: dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC), front eye fields, motor, visuomotor, and primary sensory. During dual-tasking, the average AUC values across all fNIRS channels were 75.02 ± 12.51, 61.44 ± 14.60 and 42.26 ± 22.89 for HY, CN, and MCI/AD groups, respectively. During dual-tasking, differences between AUC values of CN and MCI/AD groups were significant for the average across all channels, primary sensory, aPFC, and dlPFC regions (p < 0.05). During rest, only the average across all channels was significantly different between CN and MCI/AD groups (p = 0.02). Findings suggest that dual-tasking may better screen for cognitive impairment using fNIRS compared to other task types, especially in regions associated with pathological and behavioral changes in AD.

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Elevated blood pressure, stroke volume, and vascular tone in young women who use oral contraception

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112557

Kelsey L. Piersol, Jennifer F. Buckman

Use of hormonal contraception is important to consider as a risk or protective factor in the development of cardiovascular disease. Prior reports of short and long-term effects of hormonal contraception on cardiovascular disease allude to its potential for immediate and delayed cardiovascular effects, but the nature of direct early cardiovascular changes as the result of hormonal contraception use remains understudied. This cross-sectional data analysis add-on study compared differences in cardiovascular function of naturally cycling women (n = 90) and women using oral contraceptive pills (n = 35) at rest and in response to physiological breathing challenges that activated the sympathetic (paced sighing) or parasympathetic (slow paced breathing) nervous systems. Results showed women using oral contraception had elevated resting systolic blood pressure as well as increased stroke volume and shortened pulse transit time (i.e., vasoconstriction) relative to naturally cycling women. Despite resting differences, both groups responded similarly to breathing challenges. Elevated resting blood pressure and altered sympathetic control, even at preclinical levels, may increase physiological wear-and-tear, particularly if hormonal contraceptive use continues over long periods of time. These findings are particularly compelling considering the youth and health of the current sample.

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Emotional Stroop performance in adults and children with test anxiety: An ERP study

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112559

Peibing Liu , Shuliang Bai , Renlai Zhou

Test anxiety significantly impacts the cognitive performance of both children and adults, yet its specific effects on cognitive processing in response to test-related threatening stimuli across various age groups remain to be fully elucidated. This study employed the emotional Stroop task alongside ERP technology to explore the cognitive processing differences in response to threatening stimuli between children (n = 48) and adults (n = 55) categorized into high and low test anxiety groups. The findings indicated that children, compared to adults, demonstrated reduced accuracy and extended response times in the emotional Stroop task, along with increased ERP amplitudes. Notably, among children with low test anxiety, the N450 amplitude was significantly less negative under the threatening condition compared to the neutral condition. These results contribute to the foundational understanding of the cognitive-neural underpinnings of test anxiety.

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