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Psychiatry
Sara Jane Webb, Iris Emerman, Catherine Sugar, Damla Senturk, Adam J. Naples, Susan Faja, Jessica Benton, Heather Borland, Carter Carlos, April R. Levin, Takumi McAllister, Megha Santhosh, Raphael A. Bernier, Katarzyna Chawarska, Geraldine Dawson, James Dziura, Shafali Jeste, Natalia Kleinhans, Michael Murias, Maura Sabatos-DeVito, Frederick Shic, James C. McPartland
Summary: Recent proposals suggest using neural biomarkers to improve clinical trial processes in neurodevelopmental conditions. This study investigates the age-related differences in face processing among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typical development (TD). The findings show that ASD participants demonstrate slower latencies in face processing compared to TD children of the same age.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Gizelle Anzures, Melissa Mildort, Eli Fennell, Cassandra Bell, Elizabeth Soethe
Summary: Studies have shown developmental changes in children's face perception and racial biases. The research found that there are different patterns of early ERP responses in children and adults, which are associated with face recognition proficiency and implicit racial bias. This suggests that recognition proficiency and implicit racial bias play a role in early ERP responses in both adults and children but in different ways.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Matthias F. J. Sperl, Adrian Wroblewski, Madeleine Mueller, Benjamin Straube, Erik M. Mueller
Summary: Electrophysiological studies in rodents allow precise recording of neural activity during threats, while in humans, EEG helps elucidate the temporal dynamics of fear processes. A new fear conditioning paradigm reveals changes in EEG responses over time, shedding light on the learning curve of neurophysiological responses to threat.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Alan A. Hartley, Aditi M. Chitre, Catherine L. Reed
Summary: This experiment investigated the electrophysiological event-related potential (ERP) correlates of pupillary synchrony, which is the unconscious mimicry of pupil dilation in interpersonal interactions. The results showed that observer pupil dilation was greater for large dots compared to small or medium dots, indicating the presence of pupillary synchrony. This synchrony effect was found with both faces and textures as stimuli.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Dandan Jia, Hongpo Zhang, Yi Wang, Zhijin Zhou
Summary: In the field of emotional language research, there are significant differences in emotion effect and cognitive processing between emotion-label words and emotion-laden words. Emotion-label words elicit earlier emotional information perception, while emotion-laden words have stronger physiological activation.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Zhou Yu, Ada Kritikos, Alan J. Pegna
Summary: Recent evidence suggests that the neural system processes looming emotional faces rapidly, and this process is further influenced by emotions, leading to enhanced neural response for angry expressions. In this study, upright and inverted angry and neutral faces were presented to participants, while the faces appeared to approach or retreat from the viewer. EEG/ERP measures were used to identify the time course of brain activity for these stimuli. The results showed that upright angry faces led to enhanced brain activity, specifically in the P1 and N170 components, and the P1 response was further increased with looming angry faces. However, the inversion of the faces resulted in increased amplitudes for both the P1 and N170, but without any modulation of emotions. These findings suggest that the early modulation of brain activity for upright looming angry faces is not due to low-level visual features.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Kara J. Blacker, Daniel G. McHail
Summary: Reduced levels of environmental oxygen can lead to hypoxic hypoxia, which poses a primary threat in tactical aviation. This study found that early sensory processing is not impaired during hypoxia, but the auditory system is affected at the level of attentional processing. The consistency of hypoxia symptoms reported by individuals exhibited high variability.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Zhengyang Qi, Wenbo Luo
Summary: In this study, neural responses to holistic processing of Chinese characters were examined using the composite paradigm. The results showed that congruent trials elicited larger N170 amplitudes compared to incongruent trials, indicating a strategy of holistic processing in Chinese character recognition. Additionally, right-lateralization of processing Chinese characters was observed in the N170 amplitudes and delta-theta band oscillations, suggesting that neural indicators may provide a better signal of the strength of holistic processing in Chinese characters than behavioral indicators.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Feng Wang, Shan Chang, Dashun Wei
Summary: This study proposes a method that uses the sequence information of conotoxin peptides combined with LSTM models to predict toxin categories, achieving promising experimental results and demonstrating its effectiveness in assisting conotoxin type identification.
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Vanesa Perez, Ruth Garrido-Chaves, Mariola Zapater-Fajari, Matias M. Pulopulos, Fernando Barbosa, Vanesa Hidalgo, Alicia Salvador
Summary: This study found that older adults with SMCs showed slower and less accurate performance in a facial emotion processing task compared to controls. Additionally, men with SMCs had longer N170 latency, while no differences were observed in P300 and LPP latencies or amplitudes between groups. These results suggest that older people with SMCs may have deficits in facial emotion processing.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Er-Hu Zhang, Xue-Xian Lai, Defeng Li, Victoria Lai Cheng Lei, Yiqiang Chen, Hong-Wen Cao
Summary: This study investigated the brain activity related to hemispheric asymmetries and morpheme transposition of Chinese words. The results showed that different visual presentation conditions and morpheme transpositions had distinct effects on semantic processing of words.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Proceedings Paper
Psychology, Biological
Alessandra Floeck, Marc Mehu
Summary: This study investigated whether emoticons elicit similar brain activity patterns as faces. The results showed that emoticons can elicit similar brain reactions to faces at certain electrode locations.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND NEUROSCIENCE, NEUROIS RETREAT 2022
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Irving Remy, Thomas Schwitzer, Eliane Albuisson, Raymund Schwan, Julien Krieg, Florent Bernardin, Fabienne Ligier, Laurence Lalanne, Louis Maillard, Vincent Laprevote
Summary: Regular cannabis use can impair visual transmission, especially affecting P100 responses in low spatial frequency and dynamic conditions. These deficits may be linked to magnocellular dysfunction and further studies are necessary to clarify electrophysiological abnormalities in both cannabis users and individuals with schizophrenia.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Adam J. Naples, Jennifer H. Foss-Feig, Julie M. Wolf, Vinod H. Srihari, James C. McPartland
Summary: This study investigated the neural processing of eye-contact in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using eye tracking technology. The results showed that individuals with ASD exhibited differences in neural responses to eye-contact, which was related to sensory and anxiety symptoms. When the eye-contact was predictable, individuals with ASD showed attenuated neural responses. These findings highlight the potential role of anticipation, expectation, and gaze perception in the vulnerabilities of eye-contact during social interactions in ASD.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
I. Boutet, D. K. Shah, C. A. Collin, S. Berti, M. Persike, B. Meinhardt-Injac
Summary: Healthy aging is associated with impairments in face recognition, which may arise from difficulties in the earliest perceptual stages of visual information processing. Older adults show less selective and less lateralized N170 responses to faces, indicating age-related de-differentiation of specialized face networks can be detected by ERPs.
AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION
(2021)
Article
Music
Jiancheng Hou, Chuansheng Chen, Qi Dong, Vivek Prabhakaran, Veena A. Nair
Summary: Musicians with absolute pitch ability show better spatial ability, but little is known about whether non-musicians' pitch identification ability is associated with their spatial ability. This study investigated the relationship between pitch identification ability and spatial ability in Chinese college students and found a unique association between pitch identification ability and three-dimensional mental rotation.
Article
Criminology & Penology
Yi Wei, Ping Ren, Xingna Qin, Yunyun Zhang, Fang Luo, Chuansheng Chen
Summary: This study examines the relationship between peer victimization and deliberate self-harm (DSH) in adolescents. The findings suggest that peer victimization predicts future DSH, and depression mediates this relationship. Additionally, perceived peer support climate moderates the relationship between peer victimization and internalizing problems.
JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Baojuan Ye, Shunying Zhao, Yadi Zeng, Chuansheng Chen, Yanzhen Zhang
Summary: This study examined the relationship between perceived parental support, emotion regulation strategies, resilience, and depressive symptoms among Chinese college students during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed a negative correlation between perceived parental support and depressive symptoms, and indicated that emotion regulation strategies and resilience partially and serially mediated this relationship.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Yang Li, Wenjin Fu, Qiumei Zhang, Xiongying Chen, Xiaohong Li, Boqi Du, Xiaoxiang Deng, Feng Ji, Qi Dong, Susanne M. Jaeggi, Chuansheng Chen, Jun Li
Summary: This study compared the effects of forward and backward span training on working memory and interference control. The results showed that both types of training significantly improved working memory maintenance, while backward span training had a greater impact on interference control.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Jiancheng Hou, Chuansheng Chen, Michael W. O'Boyle, Qi Dong
Summary: This study examined the relationship between pitch identification ability and cortical complexity in nonmusicians using fractal dimensionality. The results showed that nonmusicians with superior pitch identification exhibited higher fractal dimensionality in certain brain regions compared to those with average pitch identification ability.
PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Huiling Li, Ying Cao, Chuansheng Chen, Xiaoyu Liu, Shuo Zhang, Leilei Mei
Summary: Previous studies have explored factors influencing cross-language overlap in bilinguals/multilinguals' brain activations. However, it remains uncertain how the depth of semantic processing affects the similarity of neural patterns between native and second languages. To address this, Chinese-English bilinguals underwent fMRI scans while performing shallow and deep semantic processing tasks in their native and second languages. Results from representational similarity analysis indicated that deep semantic processing led to higher cross-language pattern similarity and semantic representation in select regions of the reading brain network, compared to shallow semantic processing.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dazhi Cheng, Zhijun Cui, Chunhui Chen, Xin Xu, Kai Niu, Zhiqiang He, Xinlin Zhou
Summary: This article presents a large database consisting of five independent datasets, which can be used to study numerosity processing in the Chinese population. The data in the database reflect the underlying properties of numerosity processing, such as dot ratio, area, convex hull, perimeters, distance, and hash. Researchers can utilize this database to test theoretical hypotheses and explore individual differences in non-symbolic numerosity and mathematical abilities.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xuhao Shao, Ao Li, Chuansheng Chen, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Bi Zhu
Summary: This study found that the human hippocampus shows item-specific pattern similarity in the three stages of misinformation-induced false memory. During the memory-test stage, hippocampal representations of original information are weakened for true memory, while representations of misinformation compete with original information to create false memory. The resolution of this conflict when false memory occurs is mediated by the lateral prefrontal cortex.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Jianmin Shao, Esther S. Chang, Yuying Tsong, Chuansheng Chen, Jessica L. Borelli
Summary: This study developed a new measurement called the mother-daughter Shared Agency in Weight Management Scale (SAWMS) and explored how the dynamics of mother-daughter relationship in weight management affect daughters' body dissatisfaction. The findings showed that maternal control in weight management was positively associated with daughters' body dissatisfaction, while maternal autonomy support in weight management was negatively associated with daughters' body dissatisfaction.
JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Xiaohui Xu, Chuansheng Chen, Lan Wang, Mengmeng Zhao, Zhiyong Xin, Hongyun Liu
Summary: This study longitudinally examined the associations between number line estimation and other mathematical skills in Chinese preschoolers. The results showed significant longitudinal associations between dot counting and non-symbolic numerical comparison with number line estimation, bidirectional associations between number line estimation and symbolic number comparison, and a marginally significant longitudinal association between number line estimation and simple addition. These findings contribute to the understanding of the early development of mathematical skills and the importance of number line estimation.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jingming Xue, Ting Jiang, Chuansheng Chen, Vishnu P. Murty, Yuxin Li, Zhuolei Ding, Mingxia Zhang
Summary: This study examined the interactive effect between performance-dependent monetary rewards and self-determined choice on memory performance. The results showed that the choice effect on memory decreased when performance-dependent external rewards were introduced.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Mengyi Li, Dazhi Cheng, Chuansheng Chen, Xinlin Zhou
Summary: The study used HD-tDCS to investigate the role of the semantic neural network in mathematical processing. The results showed that anodal HD-tDCS on the left middle temporal gyrus improved performance on the number series completion task, indicating the importance of the semantic network in mathematical processing.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Si Cheng, Zhuolei Ding, Chuansheng Chen, Wenxiang Sun, Ting Jiang, Xun Liu, Mingxia Zhang
Summary: People value the opportunity to make choices and this can improve memory performance. However, little is known about the electrophysiological basis of choice-related memory. This study used scalp electroencephalography to investigate the role of theta oscillations in choice-related memory formation.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jiancheng Hou, Chuansheng Chen, Qi Dong
Summary: Musical training has been shown to enhance music perception in relation to the Gestalt principles. This study aimed to investigate whether musical training also benefits non-musical cognitive ability with respect to the Gestalt principles. Chinese participants with early, late, or no musical training were compared on the Motor-Free Visual Perception Test (MVPT). The results revealed that those with early musical training performed significantly better in the Gestalt-like Visual Closure subtest compared to those with late and no musical training, but no significant differences were found in other Gestalt-unlike subtests (Visual Memory, Visual Discrimination, Spatial Relationship, Figure Ground in MVPT). This study suggests that early musical training has a positive impact on non-musical cognitive ability involving the Gestalt principles.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tingfei Zhu, Chuansheng Chen, Shulin Chen
Summary: This study aimed to validate a Chinese version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-C) and develop a shortened version. Results showed high reliability and consistency for both the original and shortened versions, and confirmed the five-factor structure. The study also demonstrated the validity of the questionnaire through significant correlations with related constructs. The findings suggest that the FFMQ-C and its shortened version are suitable for measuring mindfulness in the Chinese population.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
