Article
Psychology, Developmental
Joshua J. Underwood, Maria A. Gartstein
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between parent-child interactions and infant brain activity. The findings showed that infants of more sensitive/responsive mothers and those engaging in more active play exchanges demonstrated a relative left frontal activation response during toy retraction. Reciprocity/synchrony and directedness did not significantly account for the EEG asymmetry response variance.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Diheng Zhang, John J. B. Allen
Summary: This study compared the reliability and validity of the nomothetic approach and individualized alpha frequency (IAF) approaches in assessing resting frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA). Results showed that FAA calculated using these three methods were highly correlated at all frontal regions, and there were no substantial differences in stability and psychometric performance across the approaches. The study supports the overall reliability and validity of the IAF approaches in assessing resting FAA but does not find any incremental advantage over the nomothetic approach. Guidelines for selecting methods in future research are provided.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yasue Mitsukura, Yuuki Tazawa, Risa Nakamura, Brian Sumali, Tsubasa Nakagawa, Satoko Hori, Masaru Mimura, Taishiro Kishimoto
Summary: This study recorded EEG data from 40 depression patients during conversation and compared them with 40 healthy subjects. The results showed significant spectral differences between depression patients and healthy individuals, as well as between patients of different severity levels and healthy individuals. Significant differences were also observed at multiple frequencies when comparing patients taking different medications. However, the spectral differences remained significant between non-medicated patients and healthy individuals.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Berenice Anaya, Alicia Vallorani, Koraly Perez-Edgar
Summary: Behavioral inhibition and EEG measures play a crucial role in influencing behavioral synchrony in children during social interactions, particularly in relation to synchrony in peer gaze. The study found that Alpha asymmetry and DeltaBeta coupling can impact energy level synchronization and peer gaze synchronization in children.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Ran Liu, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: This study examined the moderating effect of baseline-to-task frontal EEG asymmetry on the associations between 9-year fearful temperament and adolescent attention bias to threat as well as anxiety symptoms. The results showed that children with greater left frontal activation from baseline to task more efficiently direct attention away from threat. Additionally, adolescent automatic attention bias to threat was related to concurrent anxiety symptoms.
DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Dorothea Metzen, Erhan Genc, Stephan Getzmann, Mauro F. Larra, Edmund Wascher, Sebastian Ocklenburg
Summary: The study presents the first large-scale short-term reliability study of frontal and parietal EEG resting-state alpha asymmetry, showing good reliability of alpha power and alpha asymmetry on both systems for electrode pairs. It also found that alpha power asymmetry reliability is higher in the eyes-closed condition than in the eyes-open condition, and that the frontomedial electrode pair showed weaker reliability compared to the frontolateral and parietal electrode pairs.
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Sammy Perone, Alana J. Anderson, Elizabeth H. Weybright
Summary: This study investigated the influence of environmental factors on people's experience of boredom, finding that boredom was stronger when participants completed an easy task after an optimal task. Neural correlates indicated heightened self-regulatory processes under these specific conditions, while maintaining attention in the easy task was more challenging.
Article
Psychiatry
C. V. Robertson, M. Skein, G. Wingfield, J. R. Hunter, T. D. Miller, T. E. Hartmann
Summary: Depression is a mental illness characterized by behavioral withdrawal and symptoms such as sadness and cognitive disturbances. Frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) differs in depressive populations and may indicate affective responses. This study aimed to measure EEG responses during exercise in individuals with depression.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan, Andreas Fink, Ilona Papousek
Summary: Prefrontal cortex activity plays a role in regulating emotions through cognitive reappraisal. However, the debate about whether left or right prefrontal activity is more beneficial for reappraisal success is ongoing. This study found that the specific cognitive strategies used during reappraisal efforts may influence the hemispheric activation patterns. Problem-oriented reappraisal led to right-lateralized frontal activation and was associated with the highest reappraisal success and believability ratings. On the other hand, distancing reappraisal led to left-lateralized frontal EEG patterns, along with the highest ideational fluency and lowest anger ratings. Positive reinterpretation did not exhibit a distinct asymmetry pattern but had the lowest reappraisal success and believability ratings. Higher reappraisal capacity was correlated with right-lateralized frontal activity in all groups.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Lacey Chetcuti, Mirko Uljarevic, Kandice J. J. Varcin, Maryam Boutrus, Stefanie Dimov, Sarah Pillar, Josephine Barbaro, Cheryl Dissanayake, Jonathan Green, Andrew J. O. Whitehouse, Kristelle Hudry
Summary: A longitudinal study investigates the continuity of temperament subgroup classifications and their associations with behavioral/clinical phenotypic features from infancy to toddlerhood, finding that temperament subgroup classifications might represent a reliable indicator of autism characteristics and social-emotional functioning in infants/toddlers with autism traits.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Caroline M. M. Kelsey, Margaret A. A. Modico, John E. E. Richards, Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Charles A. A. Nelson
Summary: This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to investigate the relationship between frontal asymmetry in infants and psychopathology in later childhood. The results showed that greater right frontal asymmetry to happy faces was associated with increased internalizing and externalizing problems at age 5, and greater right frontal asymmetry to both happy and fearful faces was associated with an increased likelihood of a lifetime anxiety diagnosis.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Wiebke Haehl, Arash Mirifar, Markus Quirin, Juergen Beckmann
Summary: The study found a relationship between failure-related action orientation (AOF) and prefrontal asymmetry (PFA), with higher AOF scores predicting higher left-hemispheric PFA when controlling for BAS/BIS. The inconsistencies in the literature regarding the association between PFA and BAS/BIS may be partially explained by a suppression effect.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Xinmei Deng, Meng Yang, Sieun An
Summary: The study found that high mindfulness adolescents exhibited greater left frontal EEG asymmetry during emotion regulation compared to low mindfulness adolescents. Additionally, adolescents showed greater right frontal EEG asymmetry for negative stimuli compared to neutral stimuli in the up-regulating condition.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Sanchit Pawar, Asle Fagerstrom, Valdimar Sigurdsson, Erik Arntzen
Summary: This study verifies the ability of neurophysiological methods to predict the effects of antecedent events on consumer motivation. The results demonstrate that participants in the experimental group showed increased attention, choice, and consumption behavior towards the relevant stimuli.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Wiebke Haehl, Arash Mirifar, Juergen Beckmann
Summary: Prefrontal asymmetry (PFA) is associated with affective, motivational, and performance processes in the sport and exercise setting. However, the findings are inconsistent and further research on the underlying mechanisms is needed.
PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Hannah Hunter, Kristy Benoit Allen, Ran Liu, Julia Jaekel, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: Parenting behaviors have been linked to the development of internalizing disorders in children. Intrusive parenting may uniquely contribute to child internalizing symptoms. The study found that there were concurrent relationships between maternal intrusiveness and internalizing symptoms at 3 years, but this relationship disappeared when controlling for maternal education. The findings suggest that intrusive parenting behaviors may play a maintenance role in child internalizing symptoms.
DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maria A. Gartstein, D. Erich Seamon, Jennifer A. Mattera, Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Rosalind J. Wright, Koraly Perez-Edgar, Kristin A. Buss, Vanessa LoBue, Martha Ann Bell, Sherryl H. Goodman, Susan Spieker, David J. Bridgett, Amy L. Salisbury, Megan R. Gunnar, Shanna B. Mliner, Maria Muzik, Cynthia A. Stifter, Elizabeth M. Planalp, Samuel A. Mehr, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Angela F. Lukowski, Ashley M. Groh, Diane M. Lickenbrock, Rebecca Santelli, Tina Du Rocher Schudlich, Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, Catherine Thrasher, Anjolii Diaz, Carolyn Dayton, Kameron J. Moding, Evan M. Jordan
Summary: This study analyzed a large sample to examine the relationships among temperament, age, and gender in infants. The results showed that overall age group classification was more accurate than child gender models, but in the oldest age group, gender-based classification was superior, suggesting that temperament differences between boys and girls are accentuated with development.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Madeleine Bruce, Yasuo Miyazaki, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: This study examined the development of receptive vocabulary in 313 children and found that infant attention and maternal education were related to children's receptive vocabulary development. Both infant attention and maternal education were predictors of the initial status of receptive vocabulary, while only infant attention predicted growth in receptive language skill. Boys demonstrated a faster rate of receptive language development compared to girls.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Madeleine Bruce, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: This study conducted a critical review of the literature on the longitudinal relation between executive functioning and vocabulary. Inconsistent findings were found regarding the relationship between these two processes. The study also addressed methodological differences and provided future research directions.
Article
Developmental Biology
Madeleine Bruce, Tyler C. McFayden, Thomas H. Ollendick, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: Prompt, appropriate, and contingent maternal behaviors and individual differences in children's temperament have an impact on early language acquisition. However, little research has examined the combined influence of maternal psychosocial factors and child biological factors on expressive language development. This study investigated the contributions of responsive/intrusive parenting and child temperament to expressive language outcomes at 10 and 24 months of age, finding that child temperament was associated with language outcomes at both time points, while intrusive parenting only related to language outcomes at 24 months. Longitudinally, infant negative affectivity predicted sentence complexity in toddlerhood.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Tatiana Meza-Cervera, Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: This study aimed to understand how executive function and frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry during late childhood affect cognitive reappraisal and depressive symptoms in adolescence. The results showed that lower inhibitory control was associated with lower cognitive reappraisal in children with right frontal EEG asymmetry. Lower cognitive reappraisal, in turn, was linked to higher depressive symptoms in children with right frontal EEG asymmetry. Working memory and cognitive flexibility were not significant indicators. These findings suggest the potential of targeting inhibitory control and cognitive reappraisal to reduce depressive symptoms, particularly among adolescents with right frontal EEG asymmetry.
RESEARCH ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Developmental Biology
Jennifer J. Phillips, Madeleine D. Bruce, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: Research has shown that biological, psychological, and social factors predict childhood externalizing behaviors, but few studies have evaluated these factors together. This study aimed to examine the longitudinal relations between these biopsychosocial predictors of child externalizing behaviors.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Madeleine Bruce, Jyoti Savla, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: During early childhood, there is significant growth in children's executive functioning and vocabulary abilities. Understanding the developmental trajectory of these processes is important as both early vocabulary and executive functioning can predict academic and socio-emotional outcomes later in childhood. This large-scale study examined the bidirectional relationship between vocabulary and executive functioning across four measurement waves in early childhood. The results showed that children's early vocabulary scores predicted their later executive functioning performance at each timepoint, highlighting the importance of vocabulary acquisition in improving executive functioning outcomes.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Raha Hassan, Cynthia L. L. Smith, Louis A. A. Schmidt, Christina A. A. Brook, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: The dysregulation of social fear in shy children has been extensively studied, but little is known about their regulation during unfair treatment. This study examined the developmental patterns of children's shyness and found that at age 6, the high stable group demonstrated better cardiac vagal withdrawal and lower expressed sadness and approach-related regulatory strategy when faced with unfair treatment compared to the low stable group. Shy children may be more physiologically impacted by unfair treatment, but they may hide their sadness to signal appeasement.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Margaret Whedon, Nicole B. Perry, Erica B. Curtis, Martha Ann Bell
Summary: Private speech is important for the self-regulation of 3-year-olds, with the maturity of private speech positively associated with inhibitory control. This association is stronger in children with higher anger reactivity, highlighting the role of private speech in self-regulation, especially for children experiencing and expressing anger.
EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Ran Liu, Martha Ann Bell
CLINICAL CHILD AND FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW
(2020)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Anjolii Diaz, Margaret M. Swingler, Lin Tan, Cynthia L. Smith, Susan D. Calkins, Martha Ann Bell
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2019)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Susan D. Calkins, Brooks King-Casas, Martha Ann Bell
JOURNAL OF APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Ran Liu, Tashauna L. Blankenship, Alleyne P. R. Broomell, Tatiana Garcia-Meza, Susan D. Calkins, Martha Ann Bell
EARLY EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
(2018)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Amanda W. Joyce, Denise R. Friedman, Christy D. Wolfe, Martha Ann Bell
INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
(2018)
