Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Margherita Zito, Marco Bilucaglia, Alessandro Fici, Giorgio Gabrielli, Vincenzo Russo
Summary: Recruitment poses challenges in communicating a company brand image and understanding candidate potential; a neuroscientific approach was used to measure candidate experience during job interviews; results identified most stressful and engaging interview phases, providing implications for the assessment process.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Vladimir Kosonogov, Danila Shelepenkov, Nikita Rudenkiy
Summary: This study aimed to find physiological markers of viewer perception and predict film success using neuroscientific tools. The results showed that there is a correlation between neurophysiological indicators and viewer ratings of short films, which can be beneficial for the film production stage.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jacklynn M. Fitzgerald, E. Kate Webb, Susan Sangha
Summary: Discrimination between danger cues and safety cues in the environment is crucial for survival, and extends to the discrimination of reward as well, which remains understudied in human research. This study translated a rodent task for fear, reward, and neutral discrimination (FRND) into a human task. Results showed that participants rated reward cues the highest, fear cues the lowest, and neutral cues in between, while skin conductance response (SCR) amplitude was largest for fear and reward cues, and lowest for neutral cues. The FRND is a useful paradigm for assessing psychological and physiological discrimination of fear and reward.
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Simone Costantini, Mattia Chiappini, Giorgia Malerba, Carla Dei, Anna Falivene, Sara Arlati, Vera Colombo, Emilia Biffi, Fabio Alexander Storm
Summary: This study tested the accuracy of the Empatica 4 wristband in detecting heart rate variability and electrodermal activity in stress-inducing conditions and driving scenarios. The results showed that HRV time-domain and frequency-domain parameters had good reliability, while EDA parameters showed no correlation. Further research can improve the quality of HRV and EDA data through protocol optimization and algorithm improvement.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lydia J. Hickman, Connor T. Keating, Ambra Ferrari, Jennifer L. Cook
Summary: The study found that alexithymia is related to altered arousal response, particularly mean arousal, in the general population, with subjective arousal being a more useful predictor than concordance between subjective and objective arousal.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Nicholas P. Giuliani, Carolyn J. Brown, Yu-Hsiang Wu
Summary: In this study, pupillometry was identified as the most sensitive and reliable objective measurement of listening effort. Other objective measurements were significantly influenced by variability between sessions, presenting challenges for cross-study comparisons. Therefore, intraclass correlation coefficients combined with additional statistical tests provide a more comprehensive understanding of the reliability of listening effort measurements across different difficulties.
Review
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Ming Lei, Wei Chen, Jianshe Wu, Yingying Zhang, Yan Lv
Summary: This paper critically reviews studies that have utilized neurophysiological measures in the fields of tourism and hospitality. The findings indicate that neurophysiological techniques, including EEG, fMRI, and SC measures, have been effectively used to investigate attention, emotion, brain activation, and emotional responses in these industries. The application of neurophysiological measures provides valuable insights for both academic research and industry decision-making in tourism and hospitality.
JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY & TOURISM RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Melisa Stevanovic, Samuel Tuhkanen, Milla Jarvensivu, Emmi Koskinen, Camilla Lindholm, Jenny Paananen, Eniko Savander, Taina Valkeapaa, Kaisa Valkiaranta
Summary: This study utilized a novel experimental paradigm to investigate the influence of different communicative events on the affective responses of participants during food decision-making tasks. The participants' skin conductance response rates were found to be higher during the emergence of the final decision, indicating increased arousal. Additionally, relinquishing initially expressed preferences also led to higher skin conductance response rates. However, there was a negative interaction between depression diagnosis and skin conductance response rates during the relinquishment segments, suggesting that participants with depression were less aroused when giving up their previously expressed preferences compared to non-depressed individuals.
Article
Biology
Mimma Nardelli, Alberto Greco, Laura Sebastiani, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo
Summary: This study presents ComEDA, a novel approach for the characterization of complex dynamics of electrodermal activity (EDA). The proposed algorithm overcomes methodological limitations related to nonlinear analysis of EDA dynamics and shows good performance in discriminating different trends of complexity induced by physical and mental stressors.
COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Greg J. Siegle, Nicole Prause
Summary: This study examined the effects of a meditative sexual practice (Orgasmic Meditation, OM) on subjective affect and physiological arousal. The results showed that almost all participants experienced sustained positive affect during the practice, while skin conductance responses exhibited both increased and decreased trends.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hamid Fekri Azgomi, Luciano F. R. Branco, Md. Rafiul Amin, Saman Khazaei, Rose T. Faghih
Summary: Inspired by advances in wearable technologies, this study designs and performs human-subject experiments to investigate the effects of applying safe actuation (auditory, gustatory, and olfactory) on regulating cognitive arousal and enhancing performance states. Two experiments are conducted, where subjects are asked to perform n-back tasks while listening to music, drinking coffee, and smelling perfume as safe actuators. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed safe actuation in regulating arousal state and enhancing performance levels. This dataset fills the gap of the lack of publicly available datasets for self-management of internal brain states using wearable devices and safe everyday actuators, enabling further machine learning investigations for future smart work environments. This research contributes to the development of practical automated personalized closed-loop architectures for managing internal brain states and improving quality of life.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jacklynn M. Fitzgerald, Sydney Timmer-Murillo, Claire Sheeran, Hailey Begg, Morgan Christoph, Terri A. deRoon-Cassini, Christine L. Larson
Summary: The study found that emotion dysregulation after trauma can be assessed by measuring skin conductance level (SCL), and that an increase in SCL is associated with greater emotion dysregulation. Additionally, a decrease in SCL during a neutral event is related to a decrease in emotion dysregulation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Valentina Silvestri, Michelle Giraud, Viola Macchi Cassia, Elena Nava
Summary: Affective touch (AT) plays a significant role in building and maintaining social connections and mitigating the effects of social conflict and ostracism in mammals. Studies have shown that AT promotes bonding and emotional regulation during early development and preserves physical and emotional well-being in adulthood. This study found that AT can buffer adults' negative emotions and reduce the arousal and perceived unpleasantness of emotionally arousing stimuli. Moreover, individual differences, such as sensory processing sensitivity, can influence the perception of AT.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Kilian Knauth, Jan Peters
Summary: This study tested the effects of appetitive, aversive, and neutral cues on temporal discounting in 35 healthy male participants. The results showed that emotional cues of either valence did not significantly affect the steepness of temporal discounting. Aversive cues tended to increase decision noise. Computational modeling indicated that trial-wise arousal only accounted for minor variance over and above aversive and erotic condition effects, suggesting no general effect of physiological arousal on temporal discounting.
Article
Engineering, Civil
Penghui Li, Yibing Li, Yao Yao, Changxu Wu, Bingbing Nie, Shengbo Eben Li
Summary: The study found that skin conductance response (SCR) features are more important for quantifying driver arousal in the face of different cognitive loads. The phasic component plays a dominant role in EDA changes. For multi-feature quantification of driver arousal, the top five recommended features are TTP.nSCRs, SC_Rate5, CDA.SCR (or CDA.ISCR), CDA.AmpSum, and TTP.AmpSum.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Diana Karamacoska, Robert J. Barry, Genevieve Z. Steiner
Article
Psychology, Biological
Robert J. Barry, Genevieve Z. Steiner, Frances M. De Blasio, Jack S. Fogarty, Diana Karamacoska, Brett MacDonald
Article
Rehabilitation
Jeffrey Rogers, Sandy Middleton, Peter H. Wilso, Stuart J. Johnstone
TOPICS IN STROKE REHABILITATION
(2020)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Travis A. Wearne, Katherine Osborne-Crowley, Jodie A. Logan, Emily Wilson, Jacqueline Rushby, Skye McDonald
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jack S. Fogarty, Robert J. Barry, Genevieve Z. Steiner
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jack S. Fogarty, Robert J. Barry, Genevieve Z. Steiner
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2020)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Stuart J. Johnstone, Han Jiang, Li Sun, Jeffrey M. Rogers, Joaquin Valderrama, Dawei Zhang
Summary: The study found that children exhibited reduced frontal delta, theta, and alpha power while increased frontal beta power when moving from eyes-closed to eyes-open resting conditions. Frontal beta power was further increased during a focus task compared to eyes-open resting. These activation effects were consistent across individuals and showed age-related changes with a decrease in bottom-up activation effects over time.
CLINICAL EEG AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Jeffrey M. Rogers, Jenny Jensen, Joaquin T. Valderrama, Stuart J. Johnstone, Peter H. Wilson
Summary: This study examined a neurophysiological measure of engagement in healthy adults and found that increased frontal theta power is a valid measure of user engagement in virtual reality simulation and participation.
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Robert J. Barry, Frances M. De Blasio
Summary: This study introduces a new method to extract valid estimates of pink and white noise from human EEG, demonstrating its effectiveness through simulated data and real examples. The distinct neural origins and power differences of pink and white noise in different conditions suggest potential applications for more accurate assessment of neural activity and noise removal in various fields of science and technology.
JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Lauren A. Roach, Mitchell K. Byrne, Steven J. Howard, Stuart J. Johnstone, Marijka Batterham, Ian M. R. Wright, Anthony D. Okely, Renate H. M. de Groot, Inge S. M. van der Wurff, Alison L. Jones, Barbara J. Meyer
Summary: The study investigated the effect of n-3 LCPUFA supplementation on self-regulation and executive functioning in typically developing preschool-aged children, showing no significant improvements in these areas. Further research is needed to target children with sub-optimal self-regulation who may benefit most from n-3 LCPUFA supplementation.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Robert J. Barry, Frances M. De Blasio, Adele E. Cave
Summary: This study analyzes the results of an experiment conducted on children and identifies gender differences. The female group showed longer latencies in the "stop" response component compared to the male group, and also exhibited fewer errors and faster response time. These findings suggest that girls in this age range have a developmental advantage in task execution and ERP processing.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Pediatrics
Han Jiang, Stuart J. Johnstone, Jinjin Lu
Summary: Neurocognitive training in a school context has been found to improve cognitive functions in children, and this study examines the efficacy of two different approaches. The results show that both training methods significantly improve inhibitory control, but have different effects on task switching. The study also highlights the importance of teacher feedback in neurocognitive training.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jack S. Fogarty, Robert J. Barry, Genevieve Z. Steiner-Lim
Summary: The study aimed to control NoGo P3 latency jitter to investigate its relationship with inhibitory demands and neuronal sources. The findings showed differences between SL-P3 and LA-P3, encouraging ERP latency-adjustment in future research. No significant relationship was found between LA-P3 and inhibitory demands.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Clinical Neurology
Frances M. De Blasio, Robert J. Barry
CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jillian T. Teo, Stuart J. Johnstone, Susan J. Thomas
Summary: Recent advances in technology have allowed for the development of portable devices that can measure psycho-physiological variables in real-world settings. This study aimed to establish normative heart rate, heart rate variability, and electroencephalogram during relaxation and comparative conditions. Results showed that portable devices can provide valid measurements of psychophysiological activity during relaxation outside of laboratory settings. Changes in heart rate variability and EEG waveforms revealed more information about physiological relaxation and show promise for real-world monitoring in fields of study that investigate human arousal, stress, and health.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Biological
Robert W. Levenson
Summary: This article describes the development of paradigms for studying dyadic interaction in the laboratory, methods, and analytics for dealing with dyadic data. It provides research findings from the author and others, with a particular focus on dyadic measures of linkage or synchrony in physiology, expressive behavior, and subjective affective experience.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Thomas M. Olino, Matthew Mattoni
Summary: This study examined brain function in offspring of mothers with and without depression using monetary and social reward tasks. The results showed no significant differences in task activation and functional connectivity between the two groups. The study discussed the possibility of developmental timing in finding differences.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
