Biological Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Biological Psychology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Heart rate during sleep in PTSD patients: Moderation by contact with a service dog71
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The influence of slow-paced breathing on emotional valence and intensity69
Heart rate reactivity mediates the relationship between trait gratitude and acute myocardial infarction62
Affective content of simple geometric shapes promotes visual size perception53
Infants’ psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a human and with a humanoid robot49
Respiratory psychophysiology and COVID-19: A research agenda49
Peripheral body temperature rhythm as a marker of the severity of depression symptoms in fibromyalgia41
Neural gender stereotype asymmetry in bidirectional word-face priming41
Central nervous activity during a dot probe task with facial expressions in fibromyalgia41
Neuroplastic changes in anterior cingulate cortex gray matter volume and functional connectivity following attention bias modification in high trait anxious individuals39
Post-learning stress after a heartbeat perception training facilitates interoceptive accuracy in the heartbeat counting task, but not in the heartbeat discrimination task39
Left superior parietal lobe mediates the link between spontaneous mind-wandering tendency and task-switching performance38
Effects of emotional spillover and exposure to interparental psychological aggression on momentary physiological linkage during naturalistic couple conflicts37
Metabolic state modulates neural processing of odors in the human olfactory bulb33
Unveiling the neural correlates of prospective memory: An ecological EEG study32
The impact of self-esteem and interpersonal relationships on the processing of verbal violence: Evidence from ERPs31
Intrinsic neural timescales during mental tasks: An EEG test-retest reliability study31
The time course of lexical and sublexical phonological activation in Chinese written production30
How salience enhances inhibitory control: An analysis of electro-cortical mechanisms29
The neural correlates of grit: Frontal lobe activity in grit effort and interest29
Neural correlates of peer evaluation in irritable adolescents: Linking anticipation to receipt of social feedback26
Task-irrelevant features can be ignored in feature-based encoding25
Effort enhances feedback expectation but reduces feedback evaluation in prosocial contexts: A behavioral and ERP study24
Beyond 0.1 Hz: Distinct affective and cardiac responses to slow and super-slow-paced breathing22
Fear, psychophysiological arousal, and cognitions during a virtual social skills training in social anxiety disorder while manipulating gaze duration22
Differentiation of executive functions during adolescence: Converging evidence from behavioral, genetic and neural data22
Enhanced LPP responses to the angry faces in individuals with a history of childhood abuse during the implicit emotion categorization task22
Biological Psychology, as it appears today: Tribute to the past, embrace of the future21
Effects of depressive symptoms on regulating emotional goals: Preferences for distinct facial emotions21
Returning a smile: Initiating a social interaction with a facial emotional expression influences the evaluation of the expression received in return21
Electrophysiological evidence for flexible adjustments in cognitive control depending on feedback’s contingency21
Failing under pressure: Sustained sympathetic arousal among individuals prone to cognitive failures20
N1-P2 event-related potentials and perceived intensity are associated: The effects of a weak pre-stimulus and attentional load on processing of a subsequent intense stimulus20
EEG correlates of neutral working memory training induce attentional control improvements in test anxiety19
Physical activity and cortisol regulation: A meta-analysis19
Automatic emotion regulation prompts response inhibition to angry faces in sub-clinical depression: An ERP study19
Interoceptive accuracy and cognitive reappraisal modulate affective and physiological reactivity to social stress18
The mechanistic role of psychological expectations in human-humanoid robot cooperation18
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The effect of different emotional imagery scripts on end-tidal CO2 in healthy individuals in a standing position17
Event-related potentials, heart period, and brain-heart responses during a threat of shock oddball task: Replicability and 6-month-reliability17
Respiratory profiles associated with safe and unsafe swallowing in Parkinson disease17
Pupillary dilation response to the auditory food words in adolescents with obesity without binge eating disorder17
Neural activation and connectivity in offspring of depressed mothers during monetary and social reward tasks17
Right anterior theta connectivity predicts autistic social traits in typically developing children16
Metabolic interoceptive rewards shape affect, but not action16
Electrophysiological effects of smartphone notifications on cognitive control following a brief mindfulness induction16
Attachment insecurity and the biological embedding of reproductive strategies: Investigating the role of cellular aging16
Hyposensitivity to losses under risk but hypersensitivity to gains under ambiguity during feedback evaluation16
Neural correlates of familiar face recognition: Evidence in support of a serial model15
Leave the screen: The influence of everyday behaviors on self-reported interoception15
EEG spectral power correlates across cognitive tasks: Implications for VR, UXA, and Ergonomics15
Biases in affective attention tasks in posttraumatic stress disorder patients: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies15
The role of self-reported and physiological stress in nocebo hyperalgesia15
Frontal resting EEG theta asymmetry predicts risk perception, but not risk engagement in young adults15
Cardiac interoception in action: Modulation after a stress induction with a speech task15
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The moderating effect of anxiety diagnosis on the relationship between error-related negativity and anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns14
Oxytocin’s role in the interaction between emotion and cognitive control14
Use of context in updating affective representations of words in older adults14
Distinct P300 of cognitive load during problem presentation and response evaluation in an arithmetic verification task13
Electrophysiological correlates of zen meditation: An investigation using in-monastery EEG acquisition13
The impact of cardiac phases on multisensory integration13
Emotional violation of faces, emojis, and words: Evidence from N40013
Evidence for post-decisional conflict monitoring in delay discounting12
Exploring the role of working memory gate opening process in creativity: An ERP study using the reference-back paradigm12
Age differences in central auditory system responses to naturalistic music12
Violated expectations for spatial and feature attributes of visual trajectories modulate event-related potential amplitudes across the visual processing hierarchy12
Multimodal assessment of the role of intolerance of uncertainty in fear acquisition and extinction12
Faces capture spatial attention only when we want them to: An inattentional blindness EEG study12
Influence of arterial baroreflex on psychological distress: Arterial baroafferent signals attenuate social pain evoked by social exclusion12
An event-related potential study of the testing effect: Electrophysiological evidence for context-dependent processes changing throughout repeated practice12
Neural mechanisms of inhibitory control in preadolescent irritability: Insights from the ABCD study12
A perinatal coparenting intervention: Effects of a randomized trial on parent cardiometabolic risk and self-reported health11
Child and adolescent internalizing and externalizing traits, and epigenetic summary scores: A scoping review11
EEG-based clusters differentiate psychological distress, sleep quality and cognitive function in adolescents11
Can personality traits be predicted from resting-state EEG oscillations? A replication study11
Intelligence or artificial intelligence? More hard problems for authors of Biological Psychology, the neurosciences, and everyone else11
The next frontier: Moving human fear conditioning research online11
The impact of culture on emotion suppression: Insights from an electrophysiological study of emotion regulation in Japan11
An overview of the phylogeny of cardiorespiratory control in vertebrates with some reflections on the ‘Polyvagal Theory’11
Electrophysiological evidence of mal-adaptation to error in remitted depression10
Resilience is associated with cortical gray matter of the antinociceptive pathway in people with chronic pain10
Association of lifetime major depressive disorder with enhanced attentional sensitivity measured with P3 response in young adult twins10
Is mind wandering reflected in microsaccade dynamics?10
The role of tactile sense as an early indicator of cognitive decline in aging10
Sedentary behaviour, but not moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, is associated with respiratory responses to acute psychological stress10
Motor-related cortical oscillations distinguish one’s own from a partner’s contributions to a joint action10
The effect of exercise interventions on executive function in individuals with Parkinson’s disease: A meta-analysis of main and moderator effects10
Functional gradient alterations and their transcriptomic correlates in short-video addiction: The mediating role of negative affect and fear of missing out10
Putting back respiration into respiratory sinus arrhythmia or high-frequency heart rate variability: Implications for interpretation, respiratory rhythmicity, and health10
HPA–SAM co-activation among racially diverse, economically disadvantaged early adolescents: Secondary analysis with a preliminary test of a multisystem, person-centered approach10
Corrigendum to “Concurrent and prospective associations between infant frontoparietal and default mode network connectivity and negative affectivity” [Biological Psychology, volume 184 (2023), 108717]10
Revealing the brain signal complexity underlying superior putting performance in expert golfers: A multiscale entropy study with supplemental connectivity analyses10
Effect of subjective sleep quality on aggression: A two-year longitudinal and fMRI pilot study10
The association between interoception and olfactory affective responses10
From whence it came: Biological Psychology10
Genetic and neural bases of the neuroticism general factor10
Corrigendum to “The Cardiac Timing Toolbox (CaTT): Testing for physiologically plausible effects of cardiac timing on behaviour” [Biological Psychology 170 (2022) 180291]9
An exploratory study of hypnosis-induced blood count changes in chronically stressed individuals9
Expending effort may share neural responses with reward and evokes high subjective satisfaction9
Temporal dynamics of spatial attentional biases toward weight-related words among females with weight dissatisfaction9
Attentional focus and imagery vividness facilitate corticospinal excitability during contralateral action observation and motor imagery9
Disordered eating is associated with blunted blood pressure reactivity and poorer habituation to acute psychological stress9
Comparison of respiratory interoceptive accuracy with other organ domains: A scoping review9
Effect of warm pressure on feelings of social connection with close others9
Altered local gyrification index and corresponding resting-state functional connectivity in individuals with high test anxiety9
Up close and emotional: Electrophysiological dynamics of approaching angry faces9
Different armpits under my new nose: Olfactory sex but not gender affects implicit measures of embodiment9
The influence of contextual uncertainty on facial expression processing: Evidence from behavior and ERPs9
Meanness and deficits in facial affect processing: Evidence from the N1709
I, You, Robot: Attenuation for auditory outcomes of actions performed by different agents shows distinct patterns for N1 and P2 amplitudes9
Stroop in motion: Neurodynamic modulation underlying interference control while sitting, standing, and walking9
The relationship between self-reported chronic stress, physiological stress axis dysregulation and medically-unexplained symptoms9
Parenting styles and psychological resilience: The mediating role of error monitoring9
Higher breathing frequency in high than in low symptom reporters explains group differences in heart rate and vagally-mediated heart rate variability, but not in heartbeat-evoked potentials9
Combining slow-paced breathing with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to enhance emotion regulation? A multimodal investigation8
Patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence8
Hippocampal and amygdala volumes vary with transdiagnostic psychopathological dimensions of distress, anxious arousal, and trauma8
Corrigendum to “Influence of lighting color temperature on effort-related cardiac response” [Biol. Psychol. 132 (2018) 64–70]8
Multimodal neuroimaging of hierarchical cognitive control8
Effects of virtual reality-based training for soccer players on anticipatory brain functions and cognitive skills8
Arousal, Gray’s theory of anxiety, and the etiology of psychopathy8
Fast-paced breathing interventions in sports: Testing the physiological effects on the autonomic nervous system8
The evolution of sociality and the polyvagal theory8
Breathing control, brain, and bodily self-consciousness: Toward immersive digiceuticals to alleviate respiratory suffering8
Turning a blind eye to motor differences leads to bias in estimating action-related auditory ERP attenuation8
Effect of homeostatic pressure and circadian arousal on the storage and executive components of working memory: Evidence from EEG power spectrum8
Modulation of heartbeat-evoked potential and cardiac cycle effect by auditory stimuli8
Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal and autonomic nervous system biomarkers of stress and tobacco relapse: Review of the research8
Snake oil or panacea: why does heart rate variability biofeedback produce so many beneficial effects? A review of EEG and fMRI studies8
Neural substrates of marriage on self-parents processing and the association with a parents-oriented perspective shift in a collectivistic culture7
Can testosterone modulate prosocial learning in healthy males? A double-blind, placebo-controlled, testosterone administration study7
Explicit face memory abilities are positively related to the non-intentional encoding of faces: Behavioral and ERP evidence7
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Racial differences in sympathetic nervous system indicators: Implications and challenges for research7
Pupil dilation predicts modulation of direct gaze on action value calculations7
Longitudinal insights into the neurophysiology of cyberbullying involvement in adolescence: A Bayesian approach using EEG spectral power7
Hippocampal metabolites in asthma and their role in disease control and sleep7
Face motion form at learning influences the time course of face spatial frequency processing during test7
Sweating it out: The influence of sex and emotions on human sweat production7
Keeping an eye on attentive listening: Task-evoked pupil size unveils fluctuations in auditory sustained attention7
Proportion compatibility effects on visual mismatch negativity in a flanker task7
P300 in schizophrenia: Then and now7
Neural empathic response to disability: An ERP study of prejudice7
Compensating for the mobile menace with extra effort: A pupillometry investigation of the mere presence effect of smartphones7
Stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the perception of affective faces. An effective connectivity analysis7
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The individual and dyadic roles of neuroticism and conscientiousness in cardiac autonomic functioning of patients with cancer and their spousal caregivers7
Maturation of speech-elicited event-related potentials from birth to 28 months: Typical development with minor effects of dyslexia risk7
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Subjective cognitive decline is associated with altered patterns of brain activity and connectivity during performance of an old/new recognition memory task7
Concurrent and prospective associations between infant frontoparietal and default mode network connectivity and negative affectivity7
Drinking alcohol by mid-adolescence is related to reduced reward reactivity: Novel evidence of positive valence system alterations in early initiating female youth7
The role of MED22 and its transcriptional interactions with childhood trauma and trauma-focused psychotherapy in patients with major depressive disorder7
Can working memory training improve working memory capacity in typically developing children?: Training methods reveal specific effects7
Interpersonal distance affects advisors’ responses to feedback on their advice: Evidence from event-related potentials7
Timing matters in stress appraisal: The relationship between retrospective appraisal and stress responses6
Comparing a cardiac sympathetic activity index with pre-ejection period in time series6
Associations between childhood irritability and neural reactivity to maternal feedback in adolescence6
Effects of the retrieval-extinction paradigm with abstract reminders on fear memory extinction6
Human creativity escapes in the struggle against threat: Evidence from neural mechanisms6
Transdiagnostic failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across affective, substance use, and eating disorders: A replication and extension of previous results6
Mental fatigue, cognitive performance and autonomic response following sustained mental activity in clinical burnout6
Signal processing in the vagus nerve: Hypotheses based on new genetic and anatomical evidence6
How individuals evaluate the confidence of advice from advisors with high- and low-status: A behavioural and ERP study6
Subsyndromal depression leads to early under-activation and late over-activation during inhibitory control: an ERP study6
Finding humor in hormones: Oxytocin promotes laughing and smiling6
The staircase-heartbeat discrimination task (S-HDT)6
Evidence that family factors may affect child asthma through psychophysiological pathways6
Cortisol’s diurnal rhythm indexes the neurobiological impact of child adversity in adolescence6
Functional significance of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during exhaustive exercise6
Mental stress augments central artery stiffness in young individuals of both sexes6
Perceptual representations of romantic versus mother-child relationships: A combined behavioral, computational, and EEG investigation6
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Perceived partner responsiveness is associated with longitudinal changes in circulating inflammatory biomarkers among caregiving mothers in midlife6
Distinct influence of inter- versus intra-trial feedback on the brain response to subsequent feedback: Evidence from event-related potentials6
The association of emotion regulation with distress tolerance depends on a neural correlate of cognitive control6
Participant dyads making group decisions in social uncertainty adopt the exploitative strategy and show enhanced inter-brain synchrony6
Pathological and neurochemical correlates of locus coeruleus functional network activity6
Propensity to use interoceptive signals: An important individual difference6
How aging couples’ emotional and physiological associations change across positive, supportive, and conflictual discussions: Roles of capitalization and responsive behaviors6
Heart rate increases during social isolation: Matter of depressive mood and self-reported infection symptoms6
Trait sexual motivation shapes cue reactivity in visual, but not auditory, sexual reward learning: Psychophysiological and computational evidence6
The multibranched nerve: vagal function beyond heart rate variability6
Later stages of acute stress impair reinforcement-learning and feedback sensitivity in decision making5
The implications of frontotemporal dementia for brain dysfunction in psychopathy5
Standardization of facial electromyographic responses5
Neural representations of ambiguous affective stimuli and resilience to anxiety in emerging adults5
With hand on heart: A cardiac Rubber Hand Illusion5
Examining levels of processing using verbal & pictorial stimuli with the complex trial protocol in a mock theft scenario5
Respiratory interoception: measurement and connectomic fingerprinting5
Sex differences in mesolimbic effective connectivity: Money versus funny compensation during service recovery5
Smile when life is stranded: Positive feedback promotes romantic couples’ cooperation and neural synchrony5
Sedentary behaviour, physical activity and psychobiological stress reactivity: A systematic review5
Cerebral asymmetry in bipolar disorders: A scoping review5
Capturing shared fNIRS responses to visual affective stimuli in young healthy women5
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The future of psychophysiology, then and now5
Examining associations between brain morphology in late childhood and early alcohol or tobacco use initiation in adolescence: Findings from a large prospective cohort5
Acute effects of light during daytime on central aspects of attention and affect: A systematic review5
The impact of experimentally instructed suppression on cardiovascular habituation during repeated stress5
The leftmost digit change induces a decrease in brain activity related to visuospatial processing: An fMRI study of the price ending effect5
Associations between the late positive potential and PTSD, anxiety, and depressive symptoms among trauma-exposed undergraduates5
Efficient use of peripheral information for temporal prediction5
Cardiovascular exercise, learning, memory, and cytokines: Results of a ten-week randomized controlled training study in young adults5
Visual mismatch negativity is more than the sum of microsequences5
The association of self-esteem variability with diurnal cortisol patterns in a sample of adult workers5
The impact of emotional states on bilingual adaptive control across different switching frequency contexts: An ERP study5
Sex differences in cardiovascular outcomes and coping strategies among young carers and non-carers5
Behavioural and ERP evidence of a contrary effect between active and passive suppression of facial expressions5
Central and peripheral nervous system responses to chronic and paced hyperventilation in anxious and healthy subjects5
Does artistic training affect color perception? A study of ERPs and EROs in experiencing colors of different brightness5
Perceiving emotions in the eyes: The biasing role of a fearful mouth5
Autistic traits and event-related potentials in the general population: A scoping review and meta-analysis5
Linking individual behavioral architecture to brain topological structure: A combined network analysis approach5
Neural abnormalities of reward processing in adolescents with bipolar disorders: An ERP study5
Children’s shyness and early stages of emotional face processing5
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is associated with consolidation of episodic memory during sleep4
How affordance similarity impacts µ rhythm desynchronization during object selection4
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Interoception in patients with fibromyalgia compared to healthy controls4
Two effects of perceived speaker similarity in resolving the cocktail party situation – ERPs and functional connectivity4
Effects of differential fear conditioning on the perception and neural processing of respiratory stimulation4
Impact of sleep deprivation on cognitive control: Insights from the dual mechanisms of control theory4
Obesity: Heart Rate Variability during standardized psychosocial stress induction4
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Dynamic functional connectivity differences between insomnia and comorbid insomnia with depression: A neuroimaging study of brain stability4
The photic blink reflex as an index of photophobia4
Special 50th Anniversary Issue of Biological Psychology4
Improvement of exertional dyspnea in patients with COPD and severe allergic asthma responding to omalizumab4
Shaping gamma oscillations through sensory stimulation: A systematic review in healthy adults4
Study protocol of an individual thresholding procedure assessing respiratory interoception using non-invasive resistances and occlusions4
Expectation to rewards modulates learning emotional words: Evidence from a hierarchical Bayesian model4
Neuroticism and ethical risk perception among employees: Neurostructural correlates in the left precuneus4
Individual differences in frontal alpha asymmetry moderate the relationship between acute stress responsivity and state and trait anxiety in adolescents4
Letter to the Editor: A common neural correlate for affective and monetary reward4
A single session of sensorimotor rhythm neurofeedback enhances long-game performance in professional golfers4
Age-related differences in associative memory recognition of Chinese characters and hippocampal subfield volumes4
The associations among sleep-related difficulties, anxiety, and error-related brain activity in youth4
Respiratory-locked network-level differences in resting-state BOLD signals of meditators and controls4
Physiological reactions at encoding selectively predict recognition of emotional images4
Chinese character unitization enhances item memory in addition to associative memory: Evidence from ERP and TFR4
Integration of voice attractiveness and emotional semantics in spoken word processing: An ERP Study4
Modulation of the aperiodic exponent by target and distractor load during working memory delay4
Meanness and affective processing: A meta-analysis of EEG findings on emotional face processing in individuals with psychopathic traits4
Capsaicin-induced pain increases neural responses to low-calorie non-spicy food cues: An ERP study4
Operationalisation of interoceptive expectations: A novel paradigm to measure detection and Adjustment to Interoceptive Discrepancy4
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