Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108899
Elizabeth Summerell , William Xiao , Chloe Huang , Jaden Terranova , Gadi Gilam , Paolo Riva , Thomas F. Denson
Alcohol-related aggression is a widely observed phenomenon that has detrimental effects on both individuals and society, putatively caused by dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) plays a critical role in representing the reward value of future actions. Emerging research has suggested that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the vmPFC can reduce aggression. However, no study has examined whether tDCS can mitigate intoxicated aggression. In this study, 153 healthy participants consumed alcohol or not and completed the anger-infused Ultimatum Game with simultaneous double-blind anodal tDCS or sham over the bilateral vmPFC. For participants in the anodal tDCS condition, intoxicated participants were less aggressive than sober participants when insulted. However, among sober participants, anodal tDCS increased aggression. For participants in the alcohol condition, we observed no differences in aggression between the anodal tDCS and the sham tDCS conditions. These findings provide mixed support for tDCS as a means to attenuate intoxicated aggression.
{"title":"The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation over the ventromedial prefrontal cortex on reactive aggression in intoxicated and sober individuals","authors":"Elizabeth Summerell , William Xiao , Chloe Huang , Jaden Terranova , Gadi Gilam , Paolo Riva , Thomas F. Denson","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Alcohol-related aggression is a widely observed phenomenon that has detrimental effects on both individuals and society, putatively caused by dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) plays a critical role in representing the reward value of future actions. Emerging research has suggested that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the vmPFC can reduce aggression. However, no study has examined whether tDCS can mitigate intoxicated aggression. In this study, 153 healthy participants consumed alcohol or not and completed the anger-infused Ultimatum Game with simultaneous double-blind anodal tDCS or sham over the bilateral vmPFC. For participants in the anodal tDCS condition, intoxicated participants were less aggressive than sober participants when insulted. However, among sober participants, anodal tDCS increased aggression. For participants in the alcohol condition, we observed no differences in aggression between the anodal tDCS and the sham tDCS conditions. These findings provide mixed support for tDCS as a means to attenuate intoxicated aggression.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 108899"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142591372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a sensory-emotional phenomenon characterized by tingling sensations, typically felt across the scalp and neck. Scepticism around this phenomenon is still widespread, keeping the question of whether it is genuine and not mere result of conditioning, still open. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to partially answer this question, by investigating the physiological correlates of the sensory feelings reported during ASMR. In this study, we investigated the time course of somatosensory activity during ASMR, by measuring somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in response to tactile stimuli delivered to 36 participants, while watching an ASMR and a control video. Cluster-based permutation test results revealed a significant difference in SEPs between the two conditions within the time window of mid-latency components (117–151 ms) and over medial and ipsilateral centro-parietal regions, with larger amplitude while engaging with the ASMR triggers as compared to the non-ASMR eliciting video. These findings provide electrophysiological evidence of enhanced somatosensory engagement during ASMR, contributing to the growing body of research supporting the authenticity of ASMR as a genuine sensory experience.
{"title":"An investigation of the somatosensory engagement during autonomous sensory meridian response: An ERP study","authors":"Natalie Assaf , Marisa Fernandes Soares , Flavia Cardini","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108961","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108961","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a sensory-emotional phenomenon characterized by tingling sensations, typically felt across the scalp and neck. Scepticism around this phenomenon is still widespread, keeping the question of whether it is genuine and not mere result of conditioning, still open. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to partially answer this question, by investigating the physiological correlates of the sensory feelings reported during ASMR. In this study, we investigated the time course of somatosensory activity during ASMR, by measuring somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in response to tactile stimuli delivered to 36 participants, while watching an ASMR and a control video. Cluster-based permutation test results revealed a significant difference in SEPs between the two conditions within the time window of mid-latency components (117–151 ms) and over medial and ipsilateral centro-parietal regions, with larger amplitude while engaging with the ASMR triggers as compared to the non-ASMR eliciting video. These findings provide electrophysiological evidence of enhanced somatosensory engagement during ASMR, contributing to the growing body of research supporting the authenticity of ASMR as a genuine sensory experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 108961"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108911
Andrew Corcoran
{"title":"Breath in action: Exploring the role of respiration in allostasis, active sensing, and awareness","authors":"Andrew Corcoran","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108911","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 108911"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143130652","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}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108895
Weiwei Zhang , Yingyu Li , Chuan Zhou , Baike Li , John W. Schwieter , Huanhuan Liu , Meng Liu
In language acquisition, individuals learn the emotional value of words through external feedback. Previous studies have used emotional words as experimental materials to explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying emotional language processing, but have failed to recognize that languages are acquired in changing environments. To this end, this study aims to combine reinforcement learning with emotional word learning, using a probabilistic reversal learning task to explore how individuals acquire the valence of emotional words in a dynamically changing environment. Computational modeling on both behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data revealed that individuals’ expectations to rewards modulated the learning speed and temporal processing of emotional words, demonstrating a clear negative bias. Specifically, as the expected value increased, individuals responded faster and exhibited higher amplitudes for negative emotional words. These findings shed light on the neural mechanisms of emotional word learning in a volatile environment, highlighting the crucial role of expectations in this process and a preference for learning negative information.
{"title":"Expectation to rewards modulates learning emotional words: Evidence from a hierarchical Bayesian model","authors":"Weiwei Zhang , Yingyu Li , Chuan Zhou , Baike Li , John W. Schwieter , Huanhuan Liu , Meng Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108895","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108895","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In language acquisition, individuals learn the emotional value of words through external feedback. Previous studies have used emotional words as experimental materials to explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying emotional language processing, but have failed to recognize that languages are acquired in changing environments. To this end, this study aims to combine reinforcement learning with emotional word learning, using a probabilistic reversal learning task to explore how individuals acquire the valence of emotional words in a dynamically changing environment. Computational modeling on both behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data revealed that individuals’ expectations to rewards modulated the learning speed and temporal processing of emotional words, demonstrating a clear negative bias. Specifically, as the expected value increased, individuals responded faster and exhibited higher amplitudes for negative emotional words. These findings shed light on the neural mechanisms of emotional word learning in a volatile environment, highlighting the crucial role of expectations in this process and a preference for learning negative information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 108895"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559545","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}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108929
Sarah Miller , Lianne Cole , Susan McCabe , Terri Fowler , Whitney Smith , Ronald Teufel II , Michelle Nichols
{"title":"Provider perspectives on mHealth with remote spirometry to address health disparities in COPD care","authors":"Sarah Miller , Lianne Cole , Susan McCabe , Terri Fowler , Whitney Smith , Ronald Teufel II , Michelle Nichols","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108929","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 108929"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143128505","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}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108907
Beatrice L. Wood , Bruce D. Miller , E Sherwood Brown , Heather K. Lehman
{"title":"Evidence that family factors may affect child asthma through psychophysiological pathways","authors":"Beatrice L. Wood , Bruce D. Miller , E Sherwood Brown , Heather K. Lehman","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108907","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108907","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 108907"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143128805","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}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108943
Yuhan Mou , May Smith-Hublou , Alyssa Terry , Yuyu Lin , Sebastian Serrano , Karen Wheeler-Hegland
{"title":"Swallow-breathing coordination under controlled versus naturalistic conditions in healthy young adults","authors":"Yuhan Mou , May Smith-Hublou , Alyssa Terry , Yuyu Lin , Sebastian Serrano , Karen Wheeler-Hegland","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108943","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 108943"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134585","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}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108940
Sam Bernard , Tabea Eimer , Livia Guadagnoli , Maaike Van Den Houte , Lukas Van Oudenhove , Andreas von Leupoldt , Nathalie Weltens , Claus Vögele , André Schulz
{"title":"Study protocol of an individual thresholding procedure assessing respiratory interoception using non-invasive resistances and occlusions","authors":"Sam Bernard , Tabea Eimer , Livia Guadagnoli , Maaike Van Den Houte , Lukas Van Oudenhove , Andreas von Leupoldt , Nathalie Weltens , Claus Vögele , André Schulz","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108940","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108940","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 108940"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143170430","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}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108903
Valentina Jelinčić , Ilse Van Diest , Andreas von Leupoldt , Marta Walentynowicz
{"title":"Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology (ISARP)","authors":"Valentina Jelinčić , Ilse Van Diest , Andreas von Leupoldt , Marta Walentynowicz","doi":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108903","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55372,"journal":{"name":"Biological Psychology","volume":"193 ","pages":"Article 108903"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143170914","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}