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Psychology, Clinical
Fatemeh Shahrajabian, Jafar Hasani, Mark D. Griffiths, Mara Aruguete, Seyed Javad Emadi Chashmi
Summary: This study evaluated the effectiveness of emotional working memory training (eWMT) as a treatment intervention for problematic internet use (PIU). Results showed that 20 sessions of eWMT significantly reduced PIU symptoms and improved participants' working memory, attention, and inhibition compared to a placebo group.
ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
(2023)
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Sport Sciences
Robert S. Vaughan, Jack D. Hagyard, Jack Brimmell, Elizabeth J. Edwards
Summary: The research explores the relationship between trait emotional intelligence, athletic expertise, and working memory, revealing a significant impact of trait emotional intelligence on working memory in athletes, with higher levels of athletic expertise showing a more pronounced effect.
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lotte F. van Dillen, Wilhelm Hofmann
Summary: In the past decades, research in affective science has shown that affective information has unique effects on our attention, memory, and decision-making. Additionally, evidence suggests that neutral and affective representations rely on the same working memory substrates and are therefore subject to the same capacity limitations. This study integrates these findings into a working memory model of affective processing and discusses its role in attentional selection, maintenance, memory storage, and resulting emotions and behaviors. The study concludes with open questions and future directions for research.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lei Wang, Ang Sheng, Lei Chang, Renlai Zhou
Summary: Intelligence is strongly linked to working memory, and working memory training can enhance fluid intelligence by improving inhibitory control. This study investigated the role of inhibitory control in working memory training from an electrophysiological perspective. The results showed that working memory training significantly improved the fluid intelligence of children and enhanced their response inhibition ability.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Psychology, Experimental
Colleen C. Frank, Alexandru D. Iordan, Tara L. Ballouz, Joseph A. Mikels, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
Summary: Affective forecasting is crucial for decision making, and it requires affective working memory (AWM) to maintain and evaluate emotional feeling states. Studies have shown a reliable and selective relationship between AWM and AF ability, indicating that AWM is an elemental capacity contributing to higher-order emotional processes involved in AF.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alexander I. Kotyusov, Dauren Kasanov, Alexandra I. Kosachenko, Anastasia S. Gashkova, Yuri G. Pavlov, Sergey Malykh
Summary: Working memory and attention are interrelated but distinct constructs. Different types of attention may have different effects on working memory capacity. Study findings suggest that working memory capacity is related to attention control, while the ability to filter out distractors is not related to working memory capacity.
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Matthew F. Panichello, Timothy J. Buschman
Summary: Cognitive control guides behavior by controlling what, when, and how information is represented in the brain. Prefrontal cortex acts as a domain-general controller for both selection and attention, while parietal and visual cortex represent attention and selection independently. Selection and attention facilitate behavior by enhancing and transforming the representation of selected memory or attended stimulus.
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Psychology, Experimental
Annabel Songco, Shivam D. Patel, Katy Dawes, Evangeline Rodrigues, Cliodhna O'Leary, Caitlin Hitchcock, Tim Dalgleish, Susanne Schweizer
Summary: Depressed individuals experience difficulties in executive functioning, particularly in affective contexts. A complex span task was used to explore affective working memory (WM) capacity in depressed individuals. The results showed that WM capacity was more impaired in the context of negative distractor images, and those with a lifetime history of depression performed worse on the task compared to healthy controls. However, there was no support for the greater disruption of WM capacity in affective compared to neutral contexts in individuals with a lifetime history of depression.
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Psychology, Biological
Rui Shi, Mingming Qi, Heming Gao
Summary: The study investigated the neural activity of color-based center-surround inhibition in working memory. Results showed the existence of color-based center-surround inhibition during encoding and retrieval processes, indicating a greater interference between similar items.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Naomi Langerock, Giuliana Sposito, Caro Hautekiet, Evie Vergauwe
Summary: This study replicated Johnson et al.'s research on the inhibition of return effect in working memory, finding that accessing a refreshed working memory representation is more difficult.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Beatrice Cianfanelli, Antonino Esposito, Pietro Spataro, Alessandro Santirocchi, Vincenzo Cestari, Clelia Rossi-Arnaud, Marco Costanzi
Summary: This study investigated the role of working memory subcomponents in binding emotional and visuo-spatial information using the emotional object relocation task (EORT). The results showed that only a task that interfered with the episodic buffer (EB) prevented the emotion-enhancing effect of negative pictures, while this effect was not observed with a concurrent executive task. These findings suggest that pre-attentive automatic processes are primarily involved in the binding of emotional and visuo-spatial information in the EB.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gabrielle C. Veloso, Welison Evenston G. Ty
Summary: The study showed that participants who underwent emotional working memory training had significantly lower trait anxiety levels post-training. Emotion regulation was not found to mediate the relationship between working memory training and trait anxiety reduction.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Matthew K. K. Robison, Kathryn J. J. Ralph, Dawn M. M. Gondoli, Alexis Torres, Stephen Campbell, Gene A. A. Brewer, Bradley S. S. Gibson
Summary: This set of studies examined the relationship between working memory capacity, attention control, fluid intelligence, and pupillary correlates of tonic arousal regulation and phasic responsiveness. The results showed that phasic responsiveness was positively correlated with working memory capacity, attention control, and fluid intelligence, supporting the hypothesis by Unsworth and Robison (2017a). However, tonic arousal regulation was not correlated with working memory or fluid intelligence, and its correlation with attention control was inconsistent, providing partial support for Unsworth and Robison's (2017a) second hypothesis.
COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Eda Tipura, Elaine Fox
Summary: The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of working memory load on gaze cueing effect in high and low trait-anxious participants using EEG. The results showed that working memory load influenced the gaze cueing effect regardless of emotion and anxiety levels. High anxious individuals exhibited initial hypervigilance and difficulty in disengaging from target locations cued by fearful faces, while low anxious individuals showed attention shifting only when enough resources were available in working memory.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Ying Zhou, Clayton E. Curtis, Kartik K. Sreenivasan, Daryl Fougnie
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between working memory and attention using fMRI and machine learning. The results demonstrate that selecting items in working memory and shifting attention utilize similar neural mechanisms. These shared mechanisms control the relative gains of neural populations and encode behaviorally relevant information.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
E. Fonseca-Pedrero, M. Debbane, J. Ortuno-Sierra, R. C. K. Chan, D. C. Cicero, L. C. Zhang, C. Brenner, E. Barkus, R. J. Linscott, T. Kwapil, N. Barrantes-Vidal, A. Cohen, A. Raine, M. T. Compton, E. B. Tone, J. Suhr, J. Muniz, A. Fumero, S. Giakoumaki, I. Tsaousis, A. Preti, M. Chmielewski, J. Laloyaux, A. Mechri, M. A. Lahmar, V. Wuthrich, F. Laroi, J. C. Badcock, A. Jablensky
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2018)
Article
Psychiatry
Alex Hatzimanolis, Dimitrios Avramopoulos, Dan E. Arking, Anna Moes, Pallav Bhatnagar, Todd Lencz, Anil K. Malhotra, Stella G. Giakoumaki, Panos Roussos, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Panos Bitsios, Nicholas C. Stefanis
SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
(2018)
Article
Psychiatry
Boris B. Quednow, Kenechi Ejebe, Michael Wagner, Stella G. Giakoumaki, Panos Bitsios, Veena Kumari, Panos Roussos
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
(2018)
Article
Psychiatry
D. Mimarakis, T. Roumeliotaki, P. Roussos, S. G. Giakoumaki, P. Bitsios
EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY
(2018)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Jeanne E. Savage, Philip R. Jansen, Sven Stringer, Kyoko Watanabe, Julien Bryois, Christiaan A. de Leeuw, Mats Nagel, Swapnil Awasthi, Peter B. Barr, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Katrina L. Grasby, Anke R. Hammerschlag, Jakob A. Kaminski, Robert Karlsson, Eva Krapohl, Max Lam, Marianne Nygaard, Chandra A. Reynolds, Joey W. Trampush, Hannah Young, Delilah Zabaneh, Sara Hagg, Narelle K. Hansell, Ida K. Karlsson, Sten Linnarsson, Grant W. Montgomery, Ana B. Munoz-Manchado, Erin B. Quinlan, Gunter Schumann, Nathan G. Skene, Bradley T. Webb, Tonya White, Dan E. Arking, Dimitrios Avramopoulos, Robert M. Bilder, Panos Bitsios, Katherine E. Burdick, Tyrone D. Cannon, Ornit Chiba-Falek, Andrea Christoforou, Elizabeth T. Cirulli, Eliza Congdon, Aiden Corvin, Gail Davies, Ian J. Deary, Pamela DeRosse, Dwight Dickinson, Srdjan Djurovic, Gary Donohoe, Emily Drabant Conley, Johan G. Eriksson, Thomas Espeseth, Nelson A. Freimer, Stella Giakoumaki, Ina Giegling, Michael Gill, David C. Glahn, Ahmad R. Hariri, Alex Hatzimanolis, Matthew C. Keller, Emma Knowles, Deborah Koltai, Bettina Konte, Jari Lahti, Stephanie Le Hellard, Todd Lencz, David C. Liewald, Edythe London, Astri J. Lundervold, Anil K. Malhotra, Ingrid Melle, Derek Morris, Anna C. Need, William Ollier, Aarno Palotie, Antony Payton, Neil Pendleton, Russell A. Poldrack, Katri Raikkonen, Ivar Reinvang, Panos Roussos, Dan Rujescu, Fred W. Sabb, Matthew A. Scult, Olav B. Smeland, Nikolaos Smyrnis, John M. Starr, Vidar M. Steen, Nikos C. Stefanis, Richard E. Straub, Kjetil Sundet, Henning Tiemeier, Aristotle N. Voineskos, Daniel R. Weinberger, Elisabeth Widen, Jin Yu, Goncalo Abecasis, Ole A. Andreassen, Gerome Breen, Lene Christiansen, Birgit Debrabant, Danielle M. Dick, Andreas Heinz, Jens Hjerling-Leffler, M. Arfan Ikram, Kenneth S. Kendler, Nicholas G. Martin, Sarah E. Medland, Nancy L. Pedersen, Robert Plomin, Tinca J. C. Polderman, Stephan Ripke, Sophie van der Sluis, Patrick F. Sullivan, Scott I. Vrieze, Margaret J. Wright, Danielle Posthuma
Article
Psychiatry
Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero, Javier Ortuno-Sierra, Beatriz Lucas-Molina, Martin Debbane, Raymond C. K. Chan, David C. Cicero, Lisa C. Zhang, Colleen Brenner, Emma Barkus, Richard J. Linscott, Thomas Kwapil, Neus Barrantes-Vidal, Alex Cohen, Adrian Raine, Michael T. Compton, Erin B. Tone, Julie Suhr, Julio Bobes, Axit Fumero, Stella Giakoumaki, Ioannis Tsaousis, Antonio Preti, Michael Chmielewski, Julien Laloyaux, Anwar Mechri, Mohamed Aymen Lahmar, Viviana Wuthrich, Frank Laroi, Johanna C. Badcock, Assen Jablensky, David Barron, Viren Swami, Ulrich S. Tran, Martin Voracek
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
(2018)
Article
Psychiatry
Chrysoula Zouraraki, Leda Karagiannopoulou, Penny Karamaouna, Eleftherios G. Pallis, Stella G. Giakoumaki
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2019)
Article
Psychiatry
Stella G. Giakoumaki, Leda Karagiannopoulou, Penny Karamaouna, Chrysoula Zouraraki, Panos Bitsios
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHIATRY
(2020)
Article
Cell Biology
Vasiliki Stavroulaki, Stella G. Giakoumaki, Kyriaki Sidiropoulou
Summary: The debate over whether training on working memory tasks can improve memory function and other cognitive abilities remains controversial, with contradictory findings from prior studies. The lack of systematic approaches and methodological shortcomings further complicate the issue.
MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Review
Psychiatry
Chrysoula Zouraraki, Penny Karamaouna, Stella G. Giakoumaki
Summary: This systematic review aimed to clarify the relationship between schizotypal traits and facial emotion recognition deficits. The findings indicate that individuals with high schizotypal traits and patients with Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD) perform poorly in facial emotion recognition tasks. Different dimensions of schizotypy are associated with specific patterns of deficits in emotion recognition. These findings suggest that emotion recognition deficits may serve as trait markers for schizophrenia spectrum disorders and should be targeted in early-intervention programs.
EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Chrysoula Zouraraki, Andriani Kyriklaki, Elias Economou, Stella G. Giakoumaki
Summary: The present study examined the potential moderating effects of early traumatic experiences on the association between schizotypal traits and visual perceptual processing. The findings revealed that different aspects of schizotypal traits were differently associated with visual illusions depending on the levels of early traumatic experiences.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Vasiliki Stavroulaki, Kyriaki Sidiropoulou, Panos Bitsios, Stella G. Giakoumaki
Summary: This study investigated the far transfer effects of Executive Working Memory (EWM) on cognitive flexibility. The findings showed that participants who received EWM training demonstrated better cognitive flexibility, which is consistent with other studies on working memory training. These findings have promising implications for early intervention programs for individuals with cognitive impairments.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Neurosciences
Chrysoula Zouraraki, Penny Karamaouna, Stella G. Giakoumaki
Summary: Ample research findings suggest altered brain functioning in the schizophrenia spectrum. However, functional neuroimaging findings remain unclear for individuals with high schizotypal traits and diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). This systematic review aimed to identify neural abnormalities in task-related and resting-state conditions across these groups. The review found functional alterations in striatal, frontal, and temporal regions in individuals with high schizotypal traits, and default mode network abnormalities in SPD patients. Further research is needed to understand the neural correlates and compensatory mechanisms in these conditions.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Stella G. Giakoumaki, Penny Karamaouna, Leda Karagiannopoulou, Chrysoula Zouraraki
Summary: The critical link between schizotypy and schizophrenia is the impoverished cognitive functioning. Different schizotypal dimensions are associated with different patterns of self-perceived cognitive lapses, with negative schizotypy being characterized by generalized cognitive failures and disorganized schizotypy showing specific cognitive slips related to fronto-parietal network functioning. Psychological well-being is negatively associated with negative schizotypy but positively associated with cognitive-perceptual schizotypy.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)