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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The impact of self-esteem and interpersonal relationships on the processing of verbal violence: Evidence from ERPs176
Unveiling the neural correlates of prospective memory: An ecological EEG study89
The influence of slow-paced breathing on emotional valence and intensity82
Affective content of simple geometric shapes promotes visual size perception76
Emerging biomarkers for child & family intervention studies: A review of EEG studies of parenting64
How salience enhances inhibitory control: An analysis of electro-cortical mechanisms59
Endocannabinoid system reactivity during stress processing in healthy humans58
Intrinsic neural timescales during mental tasks: An EEG test-retest reliability study49
Infants’ psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a human and with a humanoid robot47
Peripheral body temperature rhythm as a marker of the severity of depression symptoms in fibromyalgia46
The time course of lexical and sublexical phonological activation in Chinese written production43
Heart rate during sleep in PTSD patients: Moderation by contact with a service dog42
Respiratory psychophysiology and COVID-19: A research agenda40
Neuroplastic changes in anterior cingulate cortex gray matter volume and functional connectivity following attention bias modification in high trait anxious individuals40
Left superior parietal lobe mediates the link between spontaneous mind-wandering tendency and task-switching performance38
Prolonged NoGo P3 latency as a possible neurobehavioral correlate of aggressive and antisocial behaviors: A Go/NoGo ERP study35
High trait anxiety blocks olfactory plasticity induced by aversive learning35
Metabolic state modulates neural processing of odors in the human olfactory bulb34
Heart rate reactivity mediates the relationship between trait gratitude and acute myocardial infarction33
Central nervous activity during a dot probe task with facial expressions in fibromyalgia32
Differentiation of executive functions during adolescence: Converging evidence from behavioral, genetic and neural data32
Task-irrelevant features can be ignored in feature-based encoding31
Electrophysiological evidence for flexible adjustments in cognitive control depending on feedback’s contingency27
Effects of depressive symptoms on regulating emotional goals: Preferences for distinct facial emotions25
Automatic emotion regulation prompts response inhibition to angry faces in sub-clinical depression: An ERP study24
Changes in brain activity related to episodic memory retrieval in adults with single domain amnestic mild cognitive impairment24
Biological Psychology, as it appears today: Tribute to the past, embrace of the future23
Returning a smile: Initiating a social interaction with a facial emotional expression influences the evaluation of the expression received in return22
EEG correlates of neutral working memory training induce attentional control improvements in test anxiety22
Fear, psychophysiological arousal, and cognitions during a virtual social skills training in social anxiety disorder while manipulating gaze duration22
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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 stimulus22
Hyposensitivity to losses under risk but hypersensitivity to gains under ambiguity during feedback evaluation21
Neural correlates of peer evaluation in irritable adolescents: Linking anticipation to receipt of social feedback21
Physical activity and cortisol regulation: A meta-analysis21
Neural correlates of familiar face recognition: Evidence in support of a serial model21
EEG spectral power correlates across cognitive tasks: Implications for VR, UXA, and Ergonomics20
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Leave the screen: The influence of everyday behaviors on self-reported interoception20
The effect of different emotional imagery scripts on end-tidal CO2 in healthy individuals in a standing position19
Attachment insecurity and the biological embedding of reproductive strategies: Investigating the role of cellular aging19
Respiratory profiles associated with safe and unsafe swallowing in Parkinson disease19
Pupillary dilation response to the auditory food words in adolescents with obesity without binge eating disorder19
Objective underpinnings of self-reported sleep quality in middle-aged and older adults: The importance of N2 and wakefulness17
Electrophysiological effects of smartphone notifications on cognitive control following a brief mindfulness induction17
Biases in affective attention tasks in posttraumatic stress disorder patients: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies17
Neural activation and connectivity in offspring of depressed mothers during monetary and social reward tasks17
Event-related potentials, heart period, and brain-heart responses during a threat of shock oddball task: Replicability and 6-month-reliability16
Right anterior theta connectivity predicts autistic social traits in typically developing children16
The role of self-reported and physiological stress in nocebo hyperalgesia16
Interoception visualization relieves acute pain16
Can personality traits be predicted from resting-state EEG oscillations? A replication study15
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An event-related potential study of the testing effect: Electrophysiological evidence for context-dependent processes changing throughout repeated practice15
Use of context in updating affective representations of words in older adults15
Multimodal assessment of the role of intolerance of uncertainty in fear acquisition and extinction14
The next frontier: Moving human fear conditioning research online14
Effect of trait anxiety on cognitive flexibility: Evidence from event-related potentials and resting-state EEG14
Hold your breath: Voluntary breath-holding time predicts defensive activation to approaching internal threat14
Age differences in central auditory system responses to naturalistic music14
The pandemic should catalyze research on social pain: Examining oxytocin administration studies14
Violated expectations for spatial and feature attributes of visual trajectories modulate event-related potential amplitudes across the visual processing hierarchy14
The moderating effect of anxiety diagnosis on the relationship between error-related negativity and anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns14
Faces capture spatial attention only when we want them to: An inattentional blindness EEG study14
Emotional violation of faces, emojis, and words: Evidence from N40013
The impact of cardiac phases on multisensory integration13
A perinatal coparenting intervention: Effects of a randomized trial on parent cardiometabolic risk and self-reported health13
The impact of culture on emotion suppression: Insights from an electrophysiological study of emotion regulation in Japan13
Oxytocin’s role in the interaction between emotion and cognitive control12
The ERN as a neural index of changes in performance monitoring following attention training in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder12
Exploring the role of working memory gate opening process in creativity: An ERP study using the reference-back paradigm12
Neural mechanisms of inhibitory control in preadolescent irritability: Insights from the ABCD study12
The association between interoception and olfactory affective responses12
Electrophysiological correlates of zen meditation: An investigation using in-monastery EEG acquisition12
Evidence for post-decisional conflict monitoring in delay discounting12
Distinct P300 of cognitive load during problem presentation and response evaluation in an arithmetic verification task12
Depressive and anxiety symptoms are related to decreased lateral prefrontal cortex functioning during cognitive control in older people11
Association of lifetime major depressive disorder with enhanced attentional sensitivity measured with P3 response in young adult twins11
Is mind wandering reflected in microsaccade dynamics?11
Putting back respiration into respiratory sinus arrhythmia or high-frequency heart rate variability: Implications for interpretation, respiratory rhythmicity, and health11
The neural processing of social norms in biculturals: The relation between cultural tightness and semantic processing11
The role of tactile sense as an early indicator of cognitive decline in aging11
Intelligence or artificial intelligence? More hard problems for authors of Biological Psychology, the neurosciences, and everyone else11
An overview of the phylogeny of cardiorespiratory control in vertebrates with some reflections on the ‘Polyvagal Theory’10
The effect of exercise interventions on executive function in individuals with Parkinson’s disease: A meta-analysis of main and moderator effects10
EEG-based clusters differentiate psychological distress, sleep quality and cognitive function in adolescents10
Disordered eating is associated with blunted blood pressure reactivity and poorer habituation to acute psychological stress10
Electrophysiological evidence of mal-adaptation to error in remitted depression10
Effect of subjective sleep quality on aggression: A two-year longitudinal and fMRI pilot study10
Corrigendum to “Concurrent and prospective associations between infant frontoparietal and default mode network connectivity and negative affectivity” [Biological Psychology, volume 184 (2023), 108717]10
HPA–SAM co-activation among racially diverse, economically disadvantaged early adolescents: Secondary analysis with a preliminary test of a multisystem, person-centered approach10
Sedentary behaviour, but not moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, is associated with respiratory responses to acute psychological stress10
Different armpits under my new nose: Olfactory sex but not gender affects implicit measures of embodiment10
Motor-related cortical oscillations distinguish one’s own from a partner’s contributions to a joint action10
Resilience is associated with cortical gray matter of the antinociceptive pathway in people with chronic pain10
Revealing the brain signal complexity underlying superior putting performance in expert golfers: A multiscale entropy study with supplemental connectivity analyses10
Parenting styles and psychological resilience: The mediating role of error monitoring10
From whence it came: Biological Psychology10
Genetic and neural bases of the neuroticism general factor9
Comparison of respiratory interoceptive accuracy with other organ domains: A scoping review9
Effect of warm pressure on feelings of social connection with close others9
Arousal, Gray’s theory of anxiety, and the etiology of psychopathy9
Effect of homeostatic pressure and circadian arousal on the storage and executive components of working memory: Evidence from EEG power spectrum9
Up close and emotional: Electrophysiological dynamics of approaching angry faces9
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
Stimulus novelty and emotionality interact in the processing of visual distractors9
Did you say my name? Congruency of 12-month-old infants’ behavioral and cardiac responses to name9
Patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence9
Turning a blind eye to motor differences leads to bias in estimating action-related auditory ERP attenuation9
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
Temporal dynamics of spatial attentional biases toward weight-related words among females with weight dissatisfaction9
Hippocampal and amygdala volumes vary with transdiagnostic psychopathological dimensions of distress, anxious arousal, and trauma9
Amygdala-driven apnea: A breath of fresh air in respiratory neurobiology9
Corrigendum to “The Cardiac Timing Toolbox (CaTT): Testing for physiologically plausible effects of cardiac timing on behaviour” [Biological Psychology 170 (2022) 180291]9
Fast-paced breathing interventions in sports: Testing the physiological effects on the autonomic nervous system8
Unique associations between conditioned cognitive and physiological threat responses and facets of anxiety symptomatology in youth8
Altered local gyrification index and corresponding resting-state functional connectivity in individuals with high test anxiety8
Snake oil or panacea: why does heart rate variability biofeedback produce so many beneficial effects? A review of EEG and fMRI studies8
The role of MED22 and its transcriptional interactions with childhood trauma and trauma-focused psychotherapy in patients with major depressive disorder8
Modulation of heartbeat-evoked potential and cardiac cycle effect by auditory stimuli8
P300 in schizophrenia: Then and now8
Combining slow-paced breathing with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to enhance emotion regulation? A multimodal investigation8
Expending effort may share neural responses with reward and evokes high subjective satisfaction8
Stroop in motion: Neurodynamic modulation underlying interference control while sitting, standing, and walking8
First and second languages differentially affect rationality when making decisions: An ERP study8
Longitudinal insights into the neurophysiology of cyberbullying involvement in adolescence: A Bayesian approach using EEG spectral power8
Pupil dilation predicts modulation of direct gaze on action value calculations8
Concurrent and prospective associations between infant frontoparietal and default mode network connectivity and negative affectivity8
The relationship between self-reported chronic stress, physiological stress axis dysregulation and medically-unexplained symptoms8
An exploratory study of hypnosis-induced blood count changes in chronically stressed individuals8
An apnea-hypothesis of anxiety generation: Novel, respiratory, and falsifiable8
Multimodal neuroimaging of hierarchical cognitive control8
Compensating for the mobile menace with extra effort: A pupillometry investigation of the mere presence effect of smartphones8
Can working memory training improve working memory capacity in typically developing children?: Training methods reveal specific effects8
The evolution of sociality and the polyvagal theory7
Stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the perception of affective faces. An effective connectivity analysis7
The multibranched nerve: vagal function beyond heart rate variability7
What do measures of self-report interoception measure? Insights from a systematic review, latent factor analysis, and network approach7
Breathing control, brain, and bodily self-consciousness: Toward immersive digiceuticals to alleviate respiratory suffering7
Neural empathic response to disability: An ERP study of prejudice7
A biomarker of maternal vicarious reward processing and its association with parenting behavior7
Hippocampal metabolites in asthma and their role in disease control and sleep7
Transdiagnostic failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across affective, substance use, and eating disorders: A replication and extension of previous results7
Maturation of speech-elicited event-related potentials from birth to 28 months: Typical development with minor effects of dyslexia risk7
Corrigendum to “Influence of lighting color temperature on effort-related cardiac response” [Biol. Psychol. 132 (2018) 64–70]7
Racial differences in sympathetic nervous system indicators: Implications and challenges for research7
How individuals evaluate the confidence of advice from advisors with high- and low-status: A behavioural and ERP study7
Subjective cognitive decline is associated with altered patterns of brain activity and connectivity during performance of an old/new recognition memory task7
Recent insights into respiratory modulation of brain activity offer new perspectives on cognition and emotion7
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Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal and autonomic nervous system biomarkers of stress and tobacco relapse: Review of the research7
Drinking alcohol by mid-adolescence is related to reduced reward reactivity: Novel evidence of positive valence system alterations in early initiating female youth7
Face motion form at learning influences the time course of face spatial frequency processing during test6
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Proportion compatibility effects on visual mismatch negativity in a flanker task6
Comparing a cardiac sympathetic activity index with pre-ejection period in time series6
Subsyndromal depression leads to early under-activation and late over-activation during inhibitory control: an ERP study6
Acute effects of light during daytime on central aspects of attention and affect: A systematic review6
The impact of retro-cue validity on working memory representation: Evidence from electroencephalograms6
Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control6
Effects of the retrieval-extinction paradigm with abstract reminders on fear memory extinction6
Timing matters in stress appraisal: The relationship between retrospective appraisal and stress responses6
Can testosterone modulate prosocial learning in healthy males? A double-blind, placebo-controlled, testosterone administration study6
Sweating it out: The influence of sex and emotions on human sweat production6
Neural substrates of marriage on self-parents processing and the association with a parents-oriented perspective shift in a collectivistic culture6
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Distinct influence of inter- versus intra-trial feedback on the brain response to subsequent feedback: Evidence from event-related potentials6
Heart rate increases during social isolation: Matter of depressive mood and self-reported infection symptoms6
Signal processing in the vagus nerve: Hypotheses based on new genetic and anatomical evidence6
The association of emotion regulation with distress tolerance depends on a neural correlate of cognitive control6
Pathological and neurochemical correlates of locus coeruleus functional network activity6
Interpersonal distance affects advisors’ responses to feedback on their advice: Evidence from event-related potentials6
Explicit face memory abilities are positively related to the non-intentional encoding of faces: Behavioral and ERP evidence6
Functional significance of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during exhaustive exercise6
How aging couples’ emotional and physiological associations change across positive, supportive, and conflictual discussions: Roles of capitalization and responsive behaviors6
Evidence that family factors may affect child asthma through psychophysiological pathways6
Judgements of attractiveness of the opposite sex and nostril differences in self-rated mood: The effects of androstenol6
Finding humor in hormones: Oxytocin promotes laughing and smiling6
Trait sexual motivation shapes cue reactivity in visual, but not auditory, sexual reward learning: Psychophysiological and computational evidence6
Mental fatigue, cognitive performance and autonomic response following sustained mental activity in clinical burnout6
Human creativity escapes in the struggle against threat: Evidence from neural mechanisms5
Autistic traits and event-related potentials in the general population: A scoping review and meta-analysis5
Propensity to use interoceptive signals: An important individual difference5
Central and peripheral nervous system responses to chronic and paced hyperventilation in anxious and healthy subjects5
Mental stress augments central artery stiffness in young individuals of both sexes5
Special 50th Anniversary Issue of Biological Psychology5
Tensor decomposition of human narrowband oscillatory brain activity in frequency, space and time5
Dynamic functional connectivity differences between insomnia and comorbid insomnia with depression: A neuroimaging study of brain stability5
Sex differences in mesolimbic effective connectivity: Money versus funny compensation during service recovery5
Interoception in patients with fibromyalgia compared to healthy controls5
The impact of experimentally instructed suppression on cardiovascular habituation during repeated stress5
Two effects of perceived speaker similarity in resolving the cocktail party situation – ERPs and functional connectivity5
Perceiving emotions in the eyes: The biasing role of a fearful mouth5
Cardiovascular exercise, learning, memory, and cytokines: Results of a ten-week randomized controlled training study in young adults5
Capturing shared fNIRS responses to visual affective stimuli in young healthy women5
Sound gaps boost emotional audiovisual integration independent of attention: Evidence from an ERP study5
With hand on heart: A cardiac Rubber Hand Illusion5
Cerebral asymmetry in bipolar disorders: A scoping review5
Cortisol’s diurnal rhythm indexes the neurobiological impact of child adversity in adolescence5
Associations between childhood irritability and neural reactivity to maternal feedback in adolescence5
Behavioural and ERP evidence of a contrary effect between active and passive suppression of facial expressions5
Later stages of acute stress impair reinforcement-learning and feedback sensitivity in decision making5
Associations between the late positive potential and PTSD, anxiety, and depressive symptoms among trauma-exposed undergraduates5
The associations among sleep-related difficulties, anxiety, and error-related brain activity in youth5
The future of psychophysiology, then and now5
Improvement of exertional dyspnea in patients with COPD and severe allergic asthma responding to omalizumab5
Children’s shyness and early stages of emotional face processing5
Sedentary behaviour, physical activity and psychobiological stress reactivity: A systematic review5
The leftmost digit change induces a decrease in brain activity related to visuospatial processing: An fMRI study of the price ending effect5
Neural abnormalities of reward processing in adolescents with bipolar disorders: An ERP study5
Does artistic training affect color perception? A study of ERPs and EROs in experiencing colors of different brightness5
The association of self-esteem variability with diurnal cortisol patterns in a sample of adult workers5
Standardization of facial electromyographic responses5
Reduced electrocortical responses to pleasant pictures in depression: A brief report on time-domain and time-frequency delta analyses5
The Cardiac Timing Toolbox (CaTT): Testing for physiologically plausible effects of cardiac timing on behaviour5
Neural representations of ambiguous affective stimuli and resilience to anxiety in emerging adults5
Examining levels of processing using verbal & pictorial stimuli with the complex trial protocol in a mock theft scenario5
Chinese character unitization enhances item memory in addition to associative memory: Evidence from ERP and TFR5
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Visual mismatch negativity is more than the sum of microsequences5
Respiratory-locked network-level differences in resting-state BOLD signals of meditators and controls5
Efficient use of peripheral information for temporal prediction5
Respiratory interoception: measurement and connectomic fingerprinting5
The implications of frontotemporal dementia for brain dysfunction in psychopathy5
Smile when life is stranded: Positive feedback promotes romantic couples’ cooperation and neural synchrony5
Examining associations between brain morphology in late childhood and early alcohol or tobacco use initiation in adolescence: Findings from a large prospective cohort5
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Feature-based attention interacts with emotional picture content during mid-latency and late ERP processing stages4
Towards a comprehensive assessment of interoception in a multi-dimensional framework4
Effects of differential fear conditioning on the perception and neural processing of respiratory stimulation4
Individual differences in frontal alpha asymmetry moderate the relationship between acute stress responsivity and state and trait anxiety in adolescents4
Meanness and affective processing: A meta-analysis of EEG findings on emotional face processing in individuals with psychopathic traits4
Anticipatory cardiac deceleration estimates cognitive performance in virtual reality beyond tonic heart period and heart period variability4
Neuroticism and ethical risk perception among employees: Neurostructural correlates in the left precuneus4
Physiological reactions at encoding selectively predict recognition of emotional images4
Age-related differences in associative memory recognition of Chinese characters and hippocampal subfield volumes4
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The heart as judge: Association of heart rate variability with moral judgement—A replication study4
Different psychophysiological responses induced by a stimulus change during the orienting task and the Concealed Information Test4
How to account for respiration in respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Publication standards for heart rate variability studies in Biological Psychology4
Influence of flavor information on visual search: Attentional capture by and suppression of flavor-associated colors4
The photic blink reflex as an index of photophobia4
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is associated with consolidation of episodic memory during sleep4
Study protocol of an individual thresholding procedure assessing respiratory interoception using non-invasive resistances and occlusions4
Cognitive plausibility of count-based versus prediction-based word embeddings: A large-scale N400 study4
Triathletes are experts in self-regulating physical activity – But what about self-regulating neural activity?4
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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