Pub Date : 2025-09-25DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113256
Bingxin Zhuo, Bihua Cao, Fuhong Li
Adaptive control refers to the dynamic regulation of cognitive processes in response to changing environmental demands. Previous studies demonstrated that the proportion of task switches or response variations can induce adaptive control. However, the extent to which adaptive control is transferred across different contexts remains poorly understood. The present study employed a confound-minimized design comprising two inducer contexts (one with 100 % response repeats and the other with 100 % response changes within a series of task-repeat trials preceding task-switch trials) and a diagnostic list with 50 % response changes. Event-related potentials (ERP) results revealed that: (1) both cue-locked switch-related positivity and stimulus-locked switch-related negativity were attenuated in the response-change inducer context compared to the response-repeat inducer context; and (2) in the diagnostic list, the influence of the inducer context was exclusively observed in the cue-locked P3 component. These results indicate that adaptive control triggered by the high frequency of response changes during task-repetition trials can be transferred to a different context and can modulate the proactive control of task switching in the new context.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-21DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113254
Zhifang Li , Shouhang Yin , Qing Li , Jing Wang , Yongqiang Chen , Mengke Zhang , Jiahang Cao , Antao Chen
Self-referential information holds an advantage in conflict processing, manifested as a reduction of the congruency effect. Despite investigations into this phenomenon via event-related potentials, the underlying neuro dynamics remain elusive. Additionally, it remains contentious whether the modulation of attentional resources is specific to the self or driven by conflict. To elucidate these matters, we employed electroencephalography to record the cerebral activity of 30 healthy individuals engaged in a modified Stroop task. The behavioral outcomes demonstrated that self-referential information reduces the congruency effect. Time-frequency analysis revealed that self-reference condition elicited increase theta event-related synchronization (ERS) and decrease event-related desynchronization (ERD) compared to non-self-reference condition. The incongruent condition elicited increase theta ERS and beta ERD compared to congruent condition. Notably, in the incongruent condition, self-reference condition elicited increased alpha ERD compared to the non-self-reference condition. Spectral MVPA results showed that conflict can be successfully decoded in the theta band, but not in the alpha and beta bands. Interestingly, during the theta band decoding, in the self-reference condition, conflicts were identified earlier compared to non-self-reference condition. Furthermore, self-referential information was successfully decoded across the theta, alpha, and beta bands.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-19DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113252
Yongcong Shao , Jie Chen , Xiao Zhong , Ziyi Peng , Lin Xu , Lijun Li
Background
Currently, there is no consensus on the effect of different durations of acute total sleep deprivation (ATSD) on human attention. This activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis aimed to compare the different patterns of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI activation) between 24-h and 36-h ATSD across attention tasks.
Methods
We used Ginger ALE 2.3.6 software to conduct coordinate-based ALE meta-analysis. The literature related to sleep deprivation, attention, and neuroimaging was searched in four databases: CNKI, PubMed, Web of Science, and PsycINFO from November 1980 to March 2023.
Results
We included 16 fMRI-related articles, with 383 participants and 95 foci. The findings revealed that 24-h ATSD and 36-h ATSD may impair different brain areas. After 24-h ATSD, there was significantly reduced brain activation in the parietal-occipital attention lobes and the salience network, including the bilateral superior parietal lobule, right inferior occipital gyrus, and left insula. Increased activation was observed in the sub-lobar regions, including the bilateral thalamus. After 36-h ATSD, there was significantly reduced activation in the frontoparietal attention network, including the left middle frontal gyrus and the right inferior frontal gyrus.
Conclusions
This ALE meta-analysis revealed that prolonged ATSD leads to more severe temporary brain damage and a cumulative decrease in the external stimuli captured by humans. This primarily affects the frontal-parietal-occipital attention network and the salience network. Thalamic activation may compensate for dysfunction in the parietal-occipital attention network after 24-h ATSD. Sleep deprivation duration plays a crucial role in the extent of attention impairment.
背景：目前，关于急性完全睡眠剥夺（ATSD）不同持续时间对人注意力的影响尚未达成共识。这项激活似然估计（ALE）荟萃分析旨在比较24小时和36小时ATSD在注意任务中的不同功能磁共振成像（fMRI激活）模式。方法：采用Ginger ALE 2.3.6软件进行坐标ALE meta分析。从1980年11月到2023年3月，在四个数据库中检索了与睡眠剥夺、注意力和神经影像学相关的文献：CNKI、PubMed、Web of Science和PsycINFO。结果：我们纳入了16篇与fmri相关的文章，383名参与者和95个焦点。研究结果显示，24小时和36小时的ATSD可能损害不同的大脑区域。ATSD 24小时后，顶叶-枕叶注意叶和突出网络（包括双侧顶叶上小叶、右侧枕下回和左侧脑岛）的脑激活显著降低。在叶下区域，包括双侧丘脑，观察到激活增加。ATSD 36小时后，额顶叶注意网络（包括左侧额中回和右侧额下回）的激活显著减少。结论：这项ALE荟萃分析显示，延长的ATSD会导致更严重的暂时性脑损伤和人类捕获的外部刺激的累积减少。这主要影响额-顶叶-枕部注意网络和显著性网络。丘脑激活可能补偿了24小时ATSD后顶枕注意网络的功能障碍。睡眠剥夺的持续时间对注意力障碍的程度起着至关重要的作用。
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Pub Date : 2025-09-19DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113253
Wenhan Zhang , Zhen Wu
Accurate recognition of facial expressions is crucial for effective interpersonal socialization, but individuals with problematic internet use (PIU) may face challenges. This study compared facial expression recognition between high PIU (HPIU) and low PIU (LPIU) individuals across three experiments. Experiment 1, using six-alternative forced choice task, found that HPIU individuals recognized six basic emotions significantly less accurately than LPIU individuals and showed greater confusion, particularly for negative expressions. Experiment 2 focused on anger and disgust expressions using the emotional expression multimorph task. HPIU individuals made significantly more errors for both expressions. Experiment 3, using event-related potentials (ERPs), revealed HPIU individuals exhibited higher N170 amplitude to anger at early stages. Additionally, HPIU individuals demonstrated higher aggression, emotional social isolation, state-trait anxiety, and immature defense styles. Correlation analysis showed that after FDR correction, only aggression levels (and its subscales) correlated significantly with facial expression recognition task performance. These findings offer initial insights into PIU-related facial expression recognition differences and highlight aggression as a key psychosocial correlate. Observed trends in specific facial expression recognition area warrant further investigation.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113250
Maryia Strotsava , Ryan C. Brindle
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are highly prevalent and associated with a wide range of adverse behavioral, psychiatric, and physical health outcomes in adulthood. Given the robust link between ACEs and poor health, identifying underlying physiological mechanisms is crucial. One proposed mechanism is cardiovascular stress reactivity, the increase in heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) in response to mental stress. The present study examined the relationship between ACEs and cardiovascular reactivity and additionally investigated baroreflex function as a potential upstream regulator of the stress response. Participants (N = 130, M = 20.43 years, 65 % female, 62 % white) completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and a socially evaluative mental arithmetic stressor in the laboratory. HR, BP, and baroreflex function was measured during both baseline and stress conditions. Baroreflex function was assessed using the sequence method. Stress reactivity was defined as the change in HR, BP, or baroreflex function from baseline to stress. HR and BP significantly increased and baroreflex function significantly decreased in response to mental stress (all p < 0.001). However, after controlling for sex, cohort, baseline values, and perceived stress, no significant associations emerged between CTQ scores, total or subscales, and either cardiovascular or baroreflex reactivity (all p ≥ 0.55). In contrast to other studies that report ACEs are related to exaggerated or blunted HR and BP, these findings suggest that ACEs are not related to cardiovascular reactivity. ACEs were not related to baroreflex stress reactivity either but since this is the first study to examine this relationship, more research is needed.
童年不良经历（ace）非常普遍，并与成年后的各种不良行为、精神和身体健康结果相关。鉴于ace与健康状况不佳之间的紧密联系，确定潜在的生理机制至关重要。一种被提出的机制是心血管应激反应，即在精神压力下心率（HR）和血压（BP）的增加。本研究考察了ace与心血管反应性之间的关系，并进一步研究了应激反应的应激反射功能。参与者（N = 130, M = 20.43岁，女性占65%，白人占62%）在实验室完成了儿童创伤问卷（CTQ）和社会评价心算压力源。在基线和应激条件下测量HR、BP和压力反射功能。用序列法评价压力反射函数。应激反应性定义为心率、血压或压力反射功能从基线到应激的变化。精神应激组HR和BP显著升高，压力反射功能显著降低（p < 0.001）。然而，在控制了性别、队列、基线值和感知压力后，CTQ评分、总量表或亚量表与心血管或气压反射反应性之间没有显着关联（均p≥0.55）。与其他报道ace与HR和BP的夸大或钝化有关的研究相反，这些研究结果表明ace与心血管反应性无关。ace也与压力反射性应激反应无关，但由于这是第一次研究这种关系，因此需要更多的研究。
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Pub Date : 2025-09-17DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113251
Sasha MacNeil , Chelsea da Estrela , Warren Caldwell , Jean-Philippe Gouin
Objective
A parent's ability to self-regulate influences parenting practices. Child-related stressors may deplete parent's self-regulatory capacities. However, this effect may be moderated by the marital context within which stressful parent-child interactions are occurring. The aim of the current study was to investigate the association between child behavioural problems and parent vagally-mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV), a proposed psychophysiological index of self-regulatory capacities, and to test whether marital stress moderated this effect.
Methods
Eighty cohabiting heterosexual couples with preschool children had their vmHRV recorded during a laboratory session and completed a measure of child behavioural problems. Daily assessments of marital stress were measured over six consecutive days. Partner's ratings of child behavioural problems and marital stress were used to predict participant's vmHRV.
Results
After adjusting for participant's age, gender, and ethnicity, greater child behavioural problems predicted lower parent vmHRV. Marital stress exacerbated the association between child behavioural problems and parent vmHRV. However, this association was moderated by parent's gender, with marital stress exacerbating the association between child behavioural problems and parent vmHRV for fathers, but not for mothers.
Conclusion
Child-related stressors are associated with reduced self-regulatory capacities among parents of preschool children as assessed by vmHRV. Fathers are especially vulnerable to the marital context within which these stressors are occurring. Poor self-regulation capacities during the early parenting years may place both parents and children at risk for long-term maladaptive outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-13DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113249
Ilenia Salsano , Giovanni Giulietti , Cristina Ottaviani , Rongwen Tain , DeWayne P. Williams , Gabriella Antonucci , Valerio Santangelo , Julian F. Thayer
Emotion, memory, and attention are closely interconnected, guiding cognitive processes and behavior. However, whether and how this complex interplay is modulated by the autonomic nervous system has been largely neglected to date. This study used functional MRI (fMRI) to investigate the relationship between heart rate variability (HRV) and brain function in healthy adults during an emotionally enhanced memory-guided visual search task. Participants engaged in a two-phase paradigm: during the encoding phase, they memorized the locations of targets embedded in emotional (positive or negative) or neutral images; during the retrieval phase, they identified low-contrast targets in previously viewed or novel images. High-frequency HRV (HF-HRV) was recorded at rest in the scanner during the anatomical image acquisition and subsequently correlated with the brain activation map derived from the interaction contrast of target memory and emotional context. Results revealed a positive correlation between HF-HRV and activation of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), a region implicated in emotional regulation and higher-order cognitive processes. These findings highlight the potential capacity of HRV to reflect the dmPFC's integration of emotional and cognitive processes to optimize memory-guided visual search performance.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113248
Tokihiro Ogawa , Izumi Matsuda , Michiko Tsuneoka
The autonomic-based Concealed Information Test (CIT) focuses on differential responses to a crime-relevant item that is significant only for knowledgeable persons. This study examined whether pre-test instructions on question themes defining knowledgeable and unknowledgeable contexts modulate the magnitude of differential responses to the relevant item. The participants (36 men 46 women) were instructed to steal one item from one of two possible locations in a mock theft task. In the subsequent CIT, an identical set of items was presented under two different contextual conditions, and participants were asked what was stolen from each of the two locations. The location in which participants enacted the mock theft was defined as the “relevant, knowledgeable” context, whereas the other location where they did nothing was the “irrelevant, unknowledgeable” context. The context was specified by pre-test instructions, and the participants were asked what they had stolen in each context. During the CIT, skin conductance response, heart rate, and respiratory movement were recorded. The results indicated that differential responses to the stolen item occurred both in the relevant and the irrelevant conditions but tended to be smaller in magnitude in the latter. From an applied perspective, it was suggested that prior experience of similar crimes may lead to a false positive but the short study–test interval in this experiment should also be noted. Our finding implies that the context-specifying instructions in the CIT were a modulator rather than the sole determinant of the significance of the relevant item.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113247
Veronika Erdélyi , István Radnóti , Olivér Nagybányai-Nagy , Ferenc Köteles
Slow gentle stroking of the hairy skin, also called affective touch, has both psychological (i.e., pleasantness of the sensation, improvement of mood state) and physiological (e.g., decrease in heart rate) effects. These effects show considerable individual differences; temporal stability of the individual responses is implicitly assumed in the literature but it has never been empirically investigated. 57 young individuals participated in a preregistered study that assessed experiential and physiological effects of slow (3 cm/s) and fast (30 cm/s) stroking delivered on their forearms two times (eight weeks apart). Pleasantness of the skin sensation showed considerable temporal stability (r = 0.73, p < .001), whereas improvement of mood state was less stable over time (r = 0.53, p < .001). Actual (heart rate, skin conductance level, respiratory rate, skin temperature) and perceived (heart rate, respiratory rate, skin temperature) physiological responses to slow stroking were characterized only by moderate stability. Finally, a considerable discordance between actual responses and their perceived counterparts was found. In conclusion, pleasantness of slow stroking can be considered a trait-like characteristic; changes in mood state and physiological responses are less stable, i.e., they might be substantially impacted by situational factors.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.113236
Julia Knappe, Markus Ullsperger, Hans Kirschner
The Concealed Information Test (CIT) is frequently used to determine the presence of crime-related information in a suspect's memory. In this paper, we conducted a meta-analysis to test the validity of the CIT to differentiate between guilty and innocent individuals based on amplitude differences of the P300 component of the event-related potential. We included k = 54 experimental studies that used either the mock-crime paradigm or the personal-item paradigm. The results show a large mean effect size (d*) of 1.59 for the P300. Moderation analysis showed that P300 effects in CIT are affected by the choice of paradigm (personal-item vs. mock-crime paradigm), the chosen trial protocol (complex vs. original) and the likelihood of subjects to employ countermeasures. Based on our findings, we conclude that the P300 is useful to determine the presence of crime-related information and that people interested in using the CIT should use the complex trial protocol to maximize effect sizes.
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