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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The neural network underlying individual differences in conflict adaptation effect140
The impact of self-esteem and interpersonal relationships on the processing of verbal violence: Evidence from ERPs76
Endocannabinoid system reactivity during stress processing in healthy humans66
Respiratory psychophysiology and COVID-19: A research agenda57
Left superior parietal lobe mediates the link between spontaneous mind-wandering tendency and task-switching performance54
Central nervous activity during a dot probe task with facial expressions in fibromyalgia51
Emerging biomarkers for child & family intervention studies: A review of EEG studies of parenting48
Metabolic state modulates neural processing of odors in the human olfactory bulb44
The influence of slow-paced breathing on emotional valence and intensity43
Differentiating reactivity and regulation: Evidence for a role of prefrontal asymmetry in affect regulation42
Heart rate reactivity mediates the relationship between trait gratitude and acute myocardial infarction38
The time course of lexical and sublexical phonological activation in Chinese written production38
Infants’ psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a human and with a humanoid robot38
Affective content of simple geometric shapes promotes visual size perception38
Peripheral body temperature rhythm as a marker of the severity of depression symptoms in fibromyalgia36
High trait anxiety blocks olfactory plasticity induced by aversive learning35
How salience enhances inhibitory control: An analysis of electro-cortical mechanisms34
Heart rate during sleep in PTSD patients: Moderation by contact with a service dog31
Prolonged NoGo P3 latency as a possible neurobehavioral correlate of aggressive and antisocial behaviors: A Go/NoGo ERP study28
Neuroplastic changes in anterior cingulate cortex gray matter volume and functional connectivity following attention bias modification in high trait anxious individuals27
Neural correlates of peer evaluation in irritable adolescents: Linking anticipation to receipt of social feedback25
EEG correlates of neutral working memory training induce attentional control improvements in test anxiety25
Preliminary data on increased reactivity towards children in distress after testosterone administration in women: A matter of protection?24
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
Returning a smile: Initiating a social interaction with a facial emotional expression influences the evaluation of the expression received in return24
Cardiac parasympathetic activity in female patients with borderline personality disorder predicts approach/avoidance behavior towards angry faces23
Physical activity and cortisol regulation: A meta-analysis22
Biological Psychology, as it appears today: Tribute to the past, embrace of the future21
Social and non-social gaze cueing in autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and a comorbid group20
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Effects of depressive symptoms on regulating emotional goals: Preferences for distinct facial emotions20
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
Neural activation and connectivity in offspring of depressed mothers during monetary and social reward tasks19
Fear, psychophysiological arousal, and cognitions during a virtual social skills training in social anxiety disorder while manipulating gaze duration19
Physiological and affective responses to emoji faces: Effects on facial muscle activity, skin conductance, heart rate, and self-reported affect19
Hyposensitivity to losses under risk but hypersensitivity to gains under ambiguity during feedback evaluation18
Leave the screen: The influence of everyday behaviors on self-reported interoception18
Right anterior theta connectivity predicts autistic social traits in typically developing children18
Event-related potentials, heart period, and brain-heart responses during a threat of shock oddball task: Replicability and 6-month-reliability17
Biases in affective attention tasks in posttraumatic stress disorder patients: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies17
Objective underpinnings of self-reported sleep quality in middle-aged and older adults: The importance of N2 and wakefulness16
Electrophysiological effects of smartphone notifications on cognitive control following a brief mindfulness induction16
Dissociating breathlessness symptoms from mood in asthma16
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Attachment insecurity and the biological embedding of reproductive strategies: Investigating the role of cellular aging16
The role of self-reported and physiological stress in nocebo hyperalgesia16
The effect of different emotional imagery scripts on end-tidal CO2 in healthy individuals in a standing position15
Interoception visualization relieves acute pain14
Respiratory profiles associated with safe and unsafe swallowing in Parkinson disease14
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Stress effects on the oddball P300 and N2 in males and females14
Evidence for post-decisional conflict monitoring in delay discounting14
Pupillary dilation response to the auditory food words in adolescents with obesity without binge eating disorder14
The pandemic should catalyze research on social pain: Examining oxytocin administration studies14
On the physiology of interruption after unexpectedness14
The moderating effect of anxiety diagnosis on the relationship between error-related negativity and anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns13
Hold your breath: Voluntary breath-holding time predicts defensive activation to approaching internal threat13
Neural mechanisms of inhibitory control in preadolescent irritability: Insights from the ABCD study13
The impact of culture on emotion suppression: Insights from an electrophysiological study of emotion regulation in Japan13
The next frontier: Moving human fear conditioning research online13
Violated expectations for spatial and feature attributes of visual trajectories modulate event-related potential amplitudes across the visual processing hierarchy13
Can personality traits be predicted from resting-state EEG oscillations? A replication study13
An event-related potential study of the testing effect: Electrophysiological evidence for context-dependent processes changing throughout repeated practice13
A perinatal coparenting intervention: Effects of a randomized trial on parent cardiometabolic risk and self-reported health13
Exploring the role of working memory gate opening process in creativity: An ERP study using the reference-back paradigm13
Multimodal assessment of the role of intolerance of uncertainty in fear acquisition and extinction13
Oxytocin’s role in the interaction between emotion and cognitive control12
Age differences in central auditory system responses to naturalistic music12
The ERN as a neural index of changes in performance monitoring following attention training in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder12
Emotional violation of faces, emojis, and words: Evidence from N40012
Use of context in updating affective representations of words in older adults12
Faces capture spatial attention only when we want them to: An inattentional blindness EEG study12
Intelligence or artificial intelligence? More hard problems for authors of Biological Psychology, the neurosciences, and everyone else11
Inference on homeostatic belief precision11
Putting back respiration into respiratory sinus arrhythmia or high-frequency heart rate variability: Implications for interpretation, respiratory rhythmicity, and health11
Depressive and anxiety symptoms are related to decreased lateral prefrontal cortex functioning during cognitive control in older people11
The impact of cardiac phases on multisensory integration11
The association between interoception and olfactory affective responses11
Effect of subjective sleep quality on aggression: A two-year longitudinal and fMRI pilot study11
Effect of trait anxiety on cognitive flexibility: Evidence from event-related potentials and resting-state EEG11
The neural processing of social norms in biculturals: The relation between cultural tightness and semantic processing11
Association of lifetime major depressive disorder with enhanced attentional sensitivity measured with P3 response in young adult twins11
Different armpits under my new nose: Olfactory sex but not gender affects implicit measures of embodiment10
Electrophysiological evidence of mal-adaptation to error in remitted depression10
An overview of the phylogeny of cardiorespiratory control in vertebrates with some reflections on the ‘Polyvagal Theory’10
HPA–SAM co-activation among racially diverse, economically disadvantaged early adolescents: Secondary analysis with a preliminary test of a multisystem, person-centered approach10
Trait anxiety modulates the temporal dynamics of Stroop task switching: An ERP study10
From whence it came: Biological Psychology10
Resilience is associated with cortical gray matter of the antinociceptive pathway in people with chronic pain10
Corrigendum to “Concurrent and prospective associations between infant frontoparietal and default mode network connectivity and negative affectivity” [Biological Psychology, volume 184 (2023), 108717]10
EEG-based clusters differentiate psychological distress, sleep quality and cognitive function in adolescents10
Can neurophysiological markers of anticipation and attention predict ADHD severity and neurofeedback outcomes?9
Motor-related cortical oscillations distinguish one’s own from a partner’s contributions to a joint action9
Neutral and threatening distracter word stimuli are unnecessarily stored in working memory but do not differ in their degree of working memory storage9
Disordered eating is associated with blunted blood pressure reactivity and poorer habituation to acute psychological stress9
Individual differences in motivation and impulsivity link resting frontal alpha asymmetry and motor beta activation9
The test-retest reliability of the respiratory-related evoked potential9
Parenting styles and psychological resilience: The mediating role of error monitoring9
Embodied power: Specific facial muscles automatically respond to power-related information processing9
Sedentary behaviour, but not moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, is associated with respiratory responses to acute psychological stress9
Genetic and neural bases of the neuroticism general factor9
An exploratory study of hypnosis-induced blood count changes in chronically stressed individuals9
Amygdala-driven apnea: A breath of fresh air in respiratory neurobiology9
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 potentials8
An apnea-hypothesis of anxiety generation: Novel, respiratory, and falsifiable8
The relationship between self-reported chronic stress, physiological stress axis dysregulation and medically-unexplained symptoms8
Corrigendum to “Systolic blood pressure mediates the association between body mass index and inhibitory control in children” [Biological Psychology 157 (November) (2020) 107988]8
Arousal, Gray’s theory of anxiety, and the etiology of psychopathy8
Up close and emotional: Electrophysiological dynamics of approaching angry faces8
The influence of contextual uncertainty on facial expression processing: Evidence from behavior and ERPs8
Patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence8
Turning a blind eye to motor differences leads to bias in estimating action-related auditory ERP attenuation8
Corrigendum to “The Cardiac Timing Toolbox (CaTT): Testing for physiologically plausible effects of cardiac timing on behaviour” [Biological Psychology 170 (2022) 180291]8
Hippocampal and amygdala volumes vary with transdiagnostic psychopathological dimensions of distress, anxious arousal, and trauma8
Comparison of respiratory interoceptive accuracy with other organ domains: A scoping review8
Life events are associated with elevated heart rate and reduced heart complexity to acute psychological stress8
Effect of homeostatic pressure and circadian arousal on the storage and executive components of working memory: Evidence from EEG power spectrum8
Did you say my name? Congruency of 12-month-old infants’ behavioral and cardiac responses to name8
Expending effort may share neural responses with reward and evokes high subjective satisfaction8
Meanness and deficits in facial affect processing: Evidence from the N1708
Pupil dilation predicts modulation of direct gaze on action value calculations7
Neural empathic response to disability: An ERP study of prejudice7
Temporal dynamics of spatial attentional biases toward weight-related words among females with weight dissatisfaction7
Snake oil or panacea: why does heart rate variability biofeedback produce so many beneficial effects? A review of EEG and fMRI studies7
A biomarker of maternal vicarious reward processing and its association with parenting behavior7
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
Facial emotion perception in young female students with subsyndromal panic disorder. Behavioral and ERP study7
Unique associations between conditioned cognitive and physiological threat responses and facets of anxiety symptomatology in youth7
Stimulus novelty and emotionality interact in the processing of visual distractors7
Combining slow-paced breathing with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to enhance emotion regulation? A multimodal investigation7
Corrigendum to “Influence of lighting color temperature on effort-related cardiac response” [Biol. Psychol. 132 (2018) 64–70]7
Multimodal neuroimaging of hierarchical cognitive control7
When old information is intermixed with new elements: An event-related potential study7
Stroop in motion: Neurodynamic modulation underlying interference control while sitting, standing, and walking7
Altered local gyrification index and corresponding resting-state functional connectivity in individuals with high test anxiety7
Fast-paced breathing interventions in sports: Testing the physiological effects on the autonomic nervous system7
Racial differences in sympathetic nervous system indicators: Implications and challenges for research7
Compensating for the mobile menace with extra effort: A pupillometry investigation of the mere presence effect of smartphones7
Explicit face memory abilities are positively related to the non-intentional encoding of faces: Behavioral and ERP evidence6
The multibranched nerve: vagal function beyond heart rate variability6
Hippocampal metabolites in asthma and their role in disease control and sleep6
Neural substrates of marriage on self-parents processing and the association with a parents-oriented perspective shift in a collectivistic culture6
Proportion compatibility effects on visual mismatch negativity in a flanker task6
Psychometric properties of the late positive potential in adult females6
Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal and autonomic nervous system biomarkers of stress and tobacco relapse: Review of the research6
Longitudinal insights into the neurophysiology of cyberbullying involvement in adolescence: A Bayesian approach using EEG spectral power6
The role of MED22 and its transcriptional interactions with childhood trauma and trauma-focused psychotherapy in patients with major depressive disorder6
The influence of variability on mismatch negativity amplitude6
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How individuals evaluate the confidence of advice from advisors with high- and low-status: A behavioural and ERP study6
Not all “caregivers” are created equal: Liking, caring and facial expression responses to the baby schema as a function of parenthood and testosterone6
Face motion form at learning influences the time course of face spatial frequency processing during test6
The effect of haptic stimulation simulating heartbeats on the regulation of physiological responses and prosocial behavior under stress: The influence of interoceptive accuracy6
Modulation of heartbeat-evoked potential and cardiac cycle effect by auditory stimuli6
Breathing control, brain, and bodily self-consciousness: Toward immersive digiceuticals to alleviate respiratory suffering6
Subjective cognitive decline is associated with altered patterns of brain activity and connectivity during performance of an old/new recognition memory task6
Stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the perception of affective faces. An effective connectivity analysis6
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How aging couples’ emotional and physiological associations change across positive, supportive, and conflictual discussions: Roles of capitalization and responsive behaviors6
First and second languages differentially affect rationality when making decisions: An ERP study6
P300 in schizophrenia: Then and now6
The evolution of sociality and the polyvagal theory6
Subsyndromal depression leads to early under-activation and late over-activation during inhibitory control: an ERP study5
Judgements of attractiveness of the opposite sex and nostril differences in self-rated mood: The effects of androstenol5
With hand on heart: A cardiac Rubber Hand Illusion5
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Changing the visualization of food to reduce food cue reactivity: An event-related potential study5
Cortisol’s diurnal rhythm indexes the neurobiological impact of child adversity in adolescence5
The impact of retro-cue validity on working memory representation: Evidence from electroencephalograms5
Distinct influence of inter- versus intra-trial feedback on the brain response to subsequent feedback: Evidence from event-related potentials5
Finding humor in hormones: Oxytocin promotes laughing and smiling5
Central and peripheral nervous system responses to chronic and paced hyperventilation in anxious and healthy subjects5
Functional significance of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during exhaustive exercise5
Transdiagnostic failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across affective, substance use, and eating disorders: A replication and extension of previous results5
Mental fatigue, cognitive performance and autonomic response following sustained mental activity in clinical burnout5
Pathological and neurochemical correlates of locus coeruleus functional network activity5
Standardization of facial electromyographic responses5
Human creativity escapes in the struggle against threat: Evidence from neural mechanisms5
Mental stress augments central artery stiffness in young individuals of both sexes5
The association of emotion regulation with distress tolerance depends on a neural correlate of cognitive control5
The Cardiac Timing Toolbox (CaTT): Testing for physiologically plausible effects of cardiac timing on behaviour5
Comparing a cardiac sympathetic activity index with pre-ejection period in time series5
Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control5
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What do measures of self-report interoception measure? Insights from a systematic review, latent factor analysis, and network approach5
Recent insights into respiratory modulation of brain activity offer new perspectives on cognition and emotion5
Can testosterone modulate prosocial learning in healthy males? A double-blind, placebo-controlled, testosterone administration study5
Effects of the retrieval-extinction paradigm with abstract reminders on fear memory extinction5
Signal processing in the vagus nerve: Hypotheses based on new genetic and anatomical evidence5
Propensity to use interoceptive signals: An important individual difference5
Associations between childhood irritability and neural reactivity to maternal feedback in adolescence5
Neural representations of ambiguous affective stimuli and resilience to anxiety in emerging adults5
The Filter Detection Task for measurement of breathing-related interoception and metacognition5
Acute effects of light during daytime on central aspects of attention and affect: A systematic review5
Evidence that family factors may affect child asthma through psychophysiological pathways5
Timing matters in stress appraisal: The relationship between retrospective appraisal and stress responses5
Interpersonal distance affects advisors’ responses to feedback on their advice: Evidence from event-related potentials5
On the construct validity of interoceptive accuracy based on heartbeat counting: Cardiovascular determinants of absolute and tilt-induced change scores5
Anxiety increases sensitivity to errors and negative feedback over time5
Two effects of perceived speaker similarity in resolving the cocktail party situation – ERPs and functional connectivity4
Dysfunction of the anterior and intermediate hippocampal functional network in major depressive disorders across the adult lifespan4
Event-related brain potentials reveal strategy selection in younger and older adults4
Sound gaps boost emotional audiovisual integration independent of attention: Evidence from an ERP study4
Examining levels of processing using verbal & pictorial stimuli with the complex trial protocol in a mock theft scenario4
Cerebral asymmetry in bipolar disorders: A scoping review4
The association of self-esteem variability with diurnal cortisol patterns in a sample of adult workers4
The implications of frontotemporal dementia for brain dysfunction in psychopathy4
Does artistic training affect color perception? A study of ERPs and EROs in experiencing colors of different brightness4
Children’s shyness and early stages of emotional face processing4
Interoception in preschoolers: New insights into its assessment and relations to emotion regulation and stress4
Sedentary behaviour, physical activity and psychobiological stress reactivity: A systematic review4
Perceiving emotions in the eyes: The biasing role of a fearful mouth4
The associations among sleep-related difficulties, anxiety, and error-related brain activity in youth4
The photic blink reflex as an index of photophobia4
The leftmost digit change induces a decrease in brain activity related to visuospatial processing: An fMRI study of the price ending effect4
Does stroke volume influence heartbeat evoked responses?4
The longitudinal association between individual differences in recall of positive specific autobiographical memories and daily cortisol4
Neural abnormalities of reward processing in adolescents with bipolar disorders: An ERP study4
The impact of experimentally instructed suppression on cardiovascular habituation during repeated stress4
Reduced electrocortical responses to pleasant pictures in depression: A brief report on time-domain and time-frequency delta analyses4
Autistic traits and event-related potentials in the general population: A scoping review and meta-analysis4
Later stages of acute stress impair reinforcement-learning and feedback sensitivity in decision making4
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Visual mismatch negativity is more than the sum of microsequences4
Interoception in patients with fibromyalgia compared to healthy controls4
Age-related differences in associative memory recognition of Chinese characters and hippocampal subfield volumes4
Physiological reactions at encoding selectively predict recognition of emotional images4
Adverse childhood experiences, sex, and cardiovascular habituation to repeated stress4
The future of psychophysiology, then and now4
Associations between the late positive potential and PTSD, anxiety, and depressive symptoms among trauma-exposed undergraduates4
Efficient use of peripheral information for temporal prediction4
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is associated with consolidation of episodic memory during sleep4
Cardiovascular exercise, learning, memory, and cytokines: Results of a ten-week randomized controlled training study in young adults4
Examining associations between brain morphology in late childhood and early alcohol or tobacco use initiation in adolescence: Findings from a large prospective cohort4
Heart rate increases during social isolation: Matter of depressive mood and self-reported infection symptoms4
Behavioural and ERP evidence of a contrary effect between active and passive suppression of facial expressions4
Capturing shared fNIRS responses to visual affective stimuli in young healthy women4
Opposing trajectories of RMSSD and RSA during slow-and super-slow breathing: A call for a multi-metric approach3
Brain oscillatory dynamics during discriminative vs CT-optimal touch3
Brain oscillations during emotion regulation and the two-dimensional model of adult attachment3
The PAC1 receptor risk genotype does not influence fear acquisition, extinction, or generalization in women with no trauma/low trauma3
The association of dispositional anxiety with the NoGo N2 under relaxation instruction vs. speed/accuracy instruction3
Two’s company: Biobehavioral research with dyads3
Heterosexual men’s pupillary responses to stimuli depicting cisgender males, cisgender females, and gynandromorphs3
Neural indices of heritable impulsivity: Impact of the COMT Val158Met polymorphism on frontal beta power during early motor preparation3
About time: Ageing influences neural markers of temporal predictability3
Social exclusion modulates neural dynamics of monetary and social reward processing in young adult females3
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