Article
Psychology, Biological
Tingji Chen, Yishuang Li, Chengzhi Feng, Wenfeng Feng
Summary: This study investigated the neural dynamics of attentional bias towards height-related words among height dissatisfied males using event-related potentials (ERPs). The results showed that height dissatisfied individuals exhibited attentional biases towards height-related information on a neural level, as indicated by enhanced spatial attention towards both tall-related and short-related words.
Article
Psychiatry
Yiwei Sun, Moxin Duan, Li An, Shuang Liu, Dong Ming
Summary: This study investigates the neural mechanism of attentional bias toward emotional stimuli in suicidal individuals and explores the influence of mental disorders and suicidal ideation on attention processing disruptions. The results show that the group with suicidal ideation and mental disorders exhibits longer early posterior negativity latency during the emotional Stroop task, while the group with suicidal ideation has delayed responses to positive information, which may lead to misinterpretation of external events. Overall, these findings provide neurophysiological indicators of suicidal behavior.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Roberto Fernandes-Magalhaes, David Ferrera, Irene Pelaez, Maria Carmen Martin-Buro, Alberto Carpio, Maria Eugenia De Lahoz, Paloma Barjola, Francisco Mercado
Summary: There is an attentional bias in fibromyalgia patients, which is followed by a deficit in the allocation of attentional resources for processing pain-related information.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Leentje Vervoort, Maya Braun, Maarten De Schryver, Tiffany Naets, Ernst H. W. Koster, Caroline Braet
Summary: The study examines the reliability of the dot probe task in assessing attentional processes related to psychopathology and health behavior, indicating low reliability of certain indices, especially when evaluating attentional bias towards food. This suggests that the task may not be suitable for experimental and individual differences research on food-related attentional biases in youth.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Brent Pitchford, Karen M. Arnell
Summary: The study found that while interindividual differences in ERPs at Time 1 did not predict attentional breadth differences across individuals at Time 1, individual differences in changes to P1, N1, and P3 ERPs to hierarchical stimuli from Time 1 to Time 2 were associated with individual differences in changes in attentional breadth from Time 1 to Time 2.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Erika Wauthia, Mandy Rossignol, Wivine Blekic, Laurent Lefebvre, Fabien D'Hondt
Summary: This study investigated the attentional biases and electrophysiological correlates in pediatric social anxiety. The results showed that children with high social anxiety display increased anchorage of attention on threatening stimuli and have difficulties in disengaging their attention from threats.
COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jiayi Yao, Xuechen Leng, Yixuan Chen, Minran Chen, Aixin Liu, Chengzhi Feng, Wenfeng Feng
Summary: This study examined the mechanisms underlying the processing of task-irrelevant and spatial-irrelevant weight-related information as distractors among individuals with weight dissatisfaction. The results showed that intact weight-related words facilitated attentional orienting and elicited evident positive deflection (P-D) among females with high weight dissatisfaction. These findings contribute to our understanding of attentional biases toward weight-related information and the cognitive-behavioral theory of body image disturbance, which may inform prevention and interventions for reducing weight dissatisfaction.
Article
Neurosciences
Marlene Derner, Thomas P. Reber, Jennifer Faber, Rainer Surges, Florian Mormann, Juergen Fell
Summary: The attentional blink (AB) is impaired identification of T2 stimuli presented shortly after T1 within a RSVP stream. The hippocampal P3 elicited by T1 plays a central role in the AB, as indicated by the larger amplitudes and increased peak latencies of T1-related P3 for unseen compared to seen T2 stimuli in HC/EC. These findings support inhibition models of the AB and highlight the importance of hippocampal involvement.
Article
Psychiatry
Paniz Tavakoli, Emily Jerome, Addo Boafo, Kenneth Campbell
Summary: The study used event-related potentials to investigate attentional bias in adolescents with acute suicidal behavior, finding that suicide attempters had longer reaction times to suicide-related words, significantly reduced P3 amplitudes, and delayed P3 latencies compared to controls.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Wenhui Li, Jin Huang, Nan Zhang, Kathrin Weidacker, Jun Li, Valerie Voon, Chuansheng Wang, Chencheng Zhang
Summary: The present study investigates whether patients with opioid use disorder on chronic methadone maintenance therapy exhibit abnormal attentional bias to drug and negative-affective cues. The results show that these patients have normalized attentional bias to both types of cues. Furthermore, the duration of methadone treatment and impulsivity level were found to affect the attentional avoidance of negative-affective cues in patients.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Stefania Franja, Anna E. McCrae, Tina Jahnel, Ashley N. Gearhardt, Stuart G. Ferguson
Summary: This study compared attentional bias measures from commonly used tasks and scoring protocols, and tested test-retest reliability. Results showed minimal attentional bias for the lexical task and greater attentional bias for the pictorial task, with relatively small correlations between the scores and poor test-retest reliability for the pictorial task. The variation in findings across attentional bias studies may be due in part to differences in measurement methods, suggesting possible benefits from combining eye-tracking measurements with reaction times in future research.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Maryann Wei, Steven Roodenrys, Leonie Miller
Summary: Attentional bias for threat (ABT) is considered a central mechanism underlying anxiety, but the link between ABT and anxiety is inconsistent. This study found that ABT associated with self-reported anxiety only in individuals with a bias away from positive stimuli, but not in individuals with a bias towards positive stimuli. However, positive attentional biases themselves did not independently predict anxiety.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Susana Cardoso, Carina Fernandes, Fernando Barbosa
Summary: The study investigated the neural correlates of attentional bias in fibromyalgia (FM) and found that FM patients may have a generalized attentional deficit.
NEUROLOGY AND THERAPY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Sini M. Koskinen, Jyrki Ahveninen, Teija Kujala, Jaakko Kaprio, Brian F. O'Donnell, Daria Osipova, Richard J. Viken, Risto Naatanen, Richard J. Rose
Summary: This study found that individuals with a history of lifetime major depression still exhibit abnormalities in auditory P3 event-related potential (ERP) after recovery. Substance use in young adults may also have an influence on this association.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biology
Jesse G. Leinwand, Mason Fidino, Stephen R. Ross, Lydia M. Hopper
Summary: Primates in zoos can spontaneously categorize humans based on familiarity and show attentional bias towards unfamiliar human faces, possibly reflecting a novelty effect.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Mingqi Zhao, Gaia Bonassi, Jessica Samogin, Gaia Amaranta Taberna, Camillo Porcaro, Elisa Pelosin, Laura Avanzino, Dante Mantini
Summary: Gait is a complex activity controlled by the nervous system, and understanding the neurokinematic and neuromuscular connectivity patterns in the brain during gait is important. This study used mobile brain/body imaging techniques to investigate gait-related brain-body connectivity and found that myogenic signals are more discriminative than kinematic signals in evaluating brain-body connectivity. The study also identified robust responses in the alpha and beta bands in the primary sensorimotor cortex. The findings demonstrate the potential of using hdEEG for studying gait-related brain-body connectivity.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Armien Lanssens, Dante Mantini, Hans Op de Beeck, Celine R. Gillebert
Summary: In day-to-day activities, stimulus representations in the visual cortex are modulated based on their attentional priority. This study found that the activity of subregions in the fronto-parietal dorsal attention network and the visual cortex is modulated by feature-based attentional weighting.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Psychology
Hella Thielen, Nora Tuts, Lies Welkenhuyzen, Irene M. C. Huenges Wajer, Christophe Lafosse, Celine R. Gillebert
Summary: Patients with acquired brain injury frequently report abnormal sensory sensitivity, either reduced (sensory hyposensitivity) or heightened (sensory hypersensitivity), which can adversely affect daily functioning. However, the underlying mechanisms of these symptoms remain poorly understood. A systematic literature review identified abnormal sensory thresholds and reduced information processing speed as potential behavioral mechanisms, with evidence of structural and functional abnormalities in sensory cortices being associated with subjective sensory sensitivity. Further research is needed to explore the causation of atypical sensory sensitivity and develop reliable diagnostic tools.
JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Neurosciences
Sapir Sela-Vasiliu, Christoph Miehl, Hanne Huygelier, Meital Oren-Suissa, Julijana Gjorgjieva, Celine R. Gillebert
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Geraldine Rodriguez-Nieto, Oron Levin, Lize Hermans, Akila Weerasekera, Anca Croitor Sava, Astrid Haghebaert, Astrid Huybrechts, Koen Cuypers, Dante Mantini, Uwe Himmelreich, Stephan P. Swinnen
Summary: Aging is associated with structural and metabolic changes in the brain. Previous research has focused on individual brain regions, but the relationship among metabolites across the brain has been less studied. Using 1H-MRS, this study investigated the relationship among metabolite concentrations in different brain regions in young and older adults. The results showed age-related differences in metabolite concentrations and revealed associative patterns between metabolites across brain regions, which differed between age groups.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Haoming Zhang, Kunkun Zhang, Ziqi Zhang, Mingqi Zhao, Quanying Liu, Wenbo Luo, Haiyan Wu
Summary: In this study, the researchers investigated the relationship between an individual's degree of social conformity and their neural variability using tasks centered on social influence. The results showed that individual differences under social influence were associated with inter-trial electroencephalogram (EEG) variability, particularly in the alpha band over frontal and occipital electrodes during negative social influence. The study also found that inter-trial EEG variability could be interpreted as an indicator of mindset instability. These findings suggest that individuals with higher inter-trial EEG variability may be more susceptible to external social influence.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Nigel Colenbier, Ekansh Sareen, Tamara del-Aguila Puntas, Alessandra Griffa, Giovanni Pellegrino, Dante Mantini, Daniele Marinazzo, Giorgio Arcara, Enrico Amico
Summary: The use of human brain connectivity data as a fingerprint for individual identification has become a popular area of research in neuroscience. Recent studies have found that brain signatures can be extracted from resting-state MEG recordings, but their effectiveness in task-related conduct is still uncertain. This study demonstrates that identification improves during tasks compared to resting-state, particularly in controlled tasks, and the brain regions contributing to identification also change during task activities.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Sonia Montemurro, Nicola Filippini, Giulio Ferrazzi, Dante Mantini, Giorgio Arcara, Marco Marino
Summary: In healthy aging, education plays a role in differentiating cognitive and neural profiles in older adults. Higher education is associated with better cognitive performance in aging. This study investigates the influence of education on age-related differences in cognition and resting state functional connectivity.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Zaira Romeo, Marco Marino, Dante Mantini, Alessandro Angrilli, Chiara Spironelli
Summary: Abnormalities in the Language Network (LN) have been observed in various psychiatric conditions, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, suggesting a continuum of shared neural alterations. In this study, the LN architecture was analyzed during resting state and a language task in bipolar disorder patients. The findings indicate reduced language lateralization in bipolar patients which may serve as a biological marker for different psychotic disorders.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Amirhossein Rasooli, Hamed Zivari Adab, Peter Van Ruitenbeek, Akila Weerasekera, Sima Chalavi, Koen Cuypers, Oron Levin, Thijs Dhollander, Ronald Peeters, Stefan Sunaert, Dante Mantini, Stephan P. Swinnen
Summary: Aging is associated with changes in the central nervous system and leads to reduced life quality. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and diffusion MRI were used to investigate the age-related differences in the CNS underlying motor performance deficits. The study found that aging was associated with increased reaction time, reduced fiber density (FD), and N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) concentration in the sensorimotor voxel. Both FD and NAA mediated the association between age and reaction time, and NAA concentration mediated the association between age and FD in the sensorimotor voxel. The decrease in NAA concentration may result in reduced axonal fiber density, which ultimately accounts for the response slowness of older participants.
Article
Neurosciences
Simon Titone, Jessica Samogin, Philippe Peigneux, Stephan P. Swinnen, Dante Mantini, Genevieve Albouy
Summary: This study used high-density electroencephalography (hdEEG) to investigate the fluctuation of frequency-dependent network-level functional connectivity (FC) during nocturnal sleep in healthy young adults. The results showed that FC within and between all resting-state networks decreased from NREM2 to NREM3 sleep in multiple frequency bands and all sleep cycles. The study also found a complex modulation of connectivity patterns during the transition to REM sleep, with a persistence of connectivity breakdown in certain frequency bands and networks. However, a reconnection occurred in the default mode and attentional networks in frequency bands characterizing their organization during wakefulness.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Alessandro Botta, Mingqi Zhao, Jessica Samogin, Elisa Pelosin, Gaia Bonassi, Giovanna Lagravinese, Dante Mantini, Alessio Avenanti, Laura Avanzino
Summary: Using high-density electroencephalography (hd-EEG), this study found that the processing of fearful emotional body language (EBL) activates somatosensory areas early on and suppresses motor activity in healthy individuals. These findings provide high-temporal resolution evidence of the interplay between somatosensory and motor areas during the observation of EBL, shedding light on the sensorimotor mechanism supporting freezing behavior.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Silvia Salvalaggio, Andrea Turolla, Martina Ando, Rita Barresi, Francesca Burgio, Pierpaolo Busan, Anna Maria Cortese, Daniela D'Imperio, Laura Danesin, Giulio Ferrazzi, Lorenza Maistrello, Eleonora Mascotto, Ilaria Parrotta, Rachele Pezzetta, Elena Rigon, Anna Vedovato, Sara Zago, Marco Zorzi, Giorgio Arcara, Dante Mantini, Nicola Filippini
Summary: This article introduces cross-modality protocols to investigate the effects of rehabilitation treatment in stroke survivors. The protocols include rehabilitation programs, clinical assessments, and physiological/imaging techniques. The integration of advanced techniques and assessment measures will help develop a predictive model of recovery in stroke patients.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Toon T. de Beukelaar, Dante Mantini
Summary: Resistance training is a popular exercise modality that uses weights or resistance to strengthen and tone muscles. Wearable technology has emerged as a promising tool for monitoring and optimizing resistance training programs, providing detailed physiological and biomechanical information. It has the potential to revolutionize resistance training research and provide new insights and opportunities for developing optimized training programs.
BIOENGINEERING-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Gaia Bonassi, Marianna Semprini, Paola Mandich, Lucia Trevisan, Roberta Marchese, Giovanna Lagravinese, Federico Barban, Elisa Pelosin, Michela Chiappalone, Dante Mantini, Laura Avanzino
Summary: Using high-density electroencephalography, we found decreased modulation of neural oscillations in early symptomatic HD and pre-HD, even though the dynamics of modulation were preserved.
