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Lee D, Kim SJ, Cheon J, Jung YC, Kang JI. Changes in interoceptive accuracy related to emotional interference in somatic symptom disorder. BMC Psychol 2024; 12:279. [PMID: 38755731 PMCID: PMC11100134 DOI: 10.1186/s40359-024-01778-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE The somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is characterized by one or more distressing or disabling somatic symptoms accompanied by an excessive amount of time, energy and emotion related to the symptoms. These manifestations of SSD have been linked to alterations in perception and appraisal of bodily signals. We hypothesized that SSD patients would exhibit changes in interoceptive accuracy (IA), particularly when emotional processing is involved. METHODS Twenty-three patients with SSD and 20 healthy controls were recruited. IA was assessed using the heartbeat perception task. The task was performed in the absence of stimuli as well as in the presence of emotional interference, i.e., photographs of faces with an emotional expression. IA were examined for correlation with measures related to their somatic symptoms, including resting-state heart rate variability (HRV). RESULTS There was no significant difference in the absolute values of IA between patients with SSD and healthy controls, regardless of the condition. However, the degree of difference in IA without emotional interference and with neutral facial interference was greater in patients with SSD than in healthy controls (p = 0.039). The IA of patients with SSD also showed a significant correlation with low-frequency HRV (p = 0.004) and high-frequency HRV (p = 0.007). CONCLUSION SSD patients showed more significant changes in IA when neutral facial interference was given. These results suggest that bodily awareness is more affected by emotionally ambiguous stimuli in SSD patients than in healthy controls.
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- Deokjong Lee
- Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, South Korea
- Yonsei Empathy Psychiatry Clinic, Seoul, 07008, South Korea
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- Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, South Korea
- Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yonsei-ro 50-1, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea
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- Department of Medicine, Yonsei University Graduate School, Seoul, 03722, South Korea
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- Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, South Korea
- Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yonsei-ro 50-1, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea
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- Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
- Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yonsei-ro 50-1, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
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Face your heart: resting vagally mediated Heart Rate Variability Shapes Social Attributions from facial appearance. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-023-04339-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
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AbstractPhylogenetic theories suggest resting vagally mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) as a biomarker for adaptive behavior in social encounters. Until now, no study has examined whether vmHRV can predict individual differences in inferring personality traits and intentions from facial appearance. To test this hypothesis, resting vmHRV was recorded in 83 healthy individuals before they rated a series of faces based on their first impression of trustworthiness, dominance, typicality, familiarity, caring, and attractiveness. We found an association between individual differences in vmHRV and social attributions from facial appearance. Specifically, higher levels of vmHRV predicted higher scores on ratings of caring and trustworthiness, suggesting that strangers’ faces are more likely to be perceived as safer. The present results suggest that higher levels of vmHRV (compared with lower levels of vmHRV) are associated with the tendency to minimize social evaluative threat and maximize affiliative social cues at a first glance of others’ faces.
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Chen PC, Zhang J, Thayer JF, Mednick SC. Understanding the roles of central and autonomic activity during sleep in the improvement of working memory and episodic memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2123417119. [PMID: 36279428 PMCID: PMC9636982 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2123417119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The last decade has seen significant progress in identifying sleep mechanisms that support cognition. Most of these studies focus on the link between electrophysiological events of the central nervous system during sleep and improvements in different cognitive domains, while the dynamic shifts of the autonomic nervous system across sleep have been largely overlooked. Recent studies, however, have identified significant contributions of autonomic inputs during sleep to cognition. Yet, there remain considerable gaps in understanding how central and autonomic systems work together during sleep to facilitate cognitive improvement. In this article we examine the evidence for the independent and interactive roles of central and autonomic activities during sleep and wake in cognitive processing. We specifically focus on the prefrontal-subcortical structures supporting working memory and mechanisms underlying the formation of hippocampal-dependent episodic memory. Our Slow Oscillation Switch Model identifies separate and competing underlying mechanisms supporting the two memory domains at the synaptic, systems, and behavioral levels. We propose that sleep is a competitive arena in which both memory domains vie for limited resources, experimentally demonstrated when boosting one system leads to a functional trade-off in electrophysiological and behavioral outcomes. As these findings inevitably lead to further questions, we suggest areas of future research to better understand how the brain and body interact to support a wide range of cognitive domains during a single sleep episode.
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- Pin-Chun Chen
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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Snowden AW, Hancock AS, Buhusi CV, Warren CM. Event-related Correlates of Evolving Trust Evaluations. Soc Neurosci 2022; 17:154-169. [DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2043935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Giraudier M, Ventura-Bort C, Wendt J, Lischke A, Weymar M. Memory advantage for untrustworthy faces: Replication across lab- and web-based studies. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0264034. [PMID: 35176058 PMCID: PMC8853483 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The Covid-19 pandemic imposed new constraints on empirical research and forced researchers to transfer from traditional laboratory research to the online environment. This study tested the validity of a web-based episodic memory paradigm by comparing participants’ memory performance for trustworthy and untrustworthy facial stimuli in a supervised laboratory setting and an unsupervised web setting. Consistent with previous results, we observed enhanced episodic memory for untrustworthy compared to trustworthy faces. Most importantly, this memory bias was comparable in the online and the laboratory experiment, suggesting that web-based procedures are a promising tool for memory research.
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- Manon Giraudier
- Department of Biological Psychology and Affective Science, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology and Affective Science, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology and Affective Science, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology and Affective Science, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
- Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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Baum J, Abdel Rahman R. Emotional news affects social judgments independent of perceived media credibility. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2021; 16:280-291. [PMID: 33274748 PMCID: PMC7943368 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaa164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2020] [Revised: 11/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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How does the credibility we attribute to media sources influence our opinions and judgments derived from news? Participants read headlines about the social behavior of depicted unfamiliar persons from websites of trusted or distrusted well-known German news media. As a consequence, persons paired with negative or positive headlines were judged more negative or positive than persons associated with neutral information independent of source credibility. Likewise, electrophysiological signatures of slow and controlled evaluative brain activity revealed a dominant influence of emotional headline contents regardless of credibility. Modulations of earlier brain responses associated with arousal and reflexive emotional processing show an effect of negative news and suggest that distrusted sources may even enhance the impact of negative headlines. These findings demonstrate that though we may have distinct perceptions about the credibility of media sources, information processing and social judgments rely on the emotional content of headlines, even when they stem from sources we distrust.
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- Julia Baum
- Faculty of Philosophy, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 10099, Germany.,Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 10099, Germany
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- Faculty of Philosophy, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 10099, Germany.,Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 10099, Germany
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The compassionate vagus: A meta-analysis on the connection between compassion and heart rate variability. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2020; 116:21-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Revised: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mattarozzi K, Caponera E, Russo PM, Colonnello V, Bassetti M, Farolfi E, Todorov A. Pain and satisfaction: healthcare providers' facial appearance matters. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2020; 85:1706-1712. [PMID: 32266544 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-020-01330-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Trait inferences based solely on facial appearance affect many social decisions. Here we tested whether the effects of such inferences extend to the perception of physical sensations. In an actual clinical setting, we show that healthcare providers' facial appearance is a strong predictor of pain experienced by patients during a medical procedure. The effect was specific to familiarity: facial features of healthcare providers that convey feelings of familiarity were associated with a decrease in patients' perception of pain. In addition, caring appearance of the healthcare providers was significantly related to patients' satisfaction with the care they received. Besides indicating that rapid, unreflective trait inferences from facial appearance may affect important healthcare outcomes, these findings contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms underlying social modulation of pain perception.
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- Katia Mattarozzi
- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, V.le Berti Pichat, 5, 40127, Bologna, Italy.
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- National Institute for the Evaluation of Educational System, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, V.le Berti Pichat, 5, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, V.le Berti Pichat, 5, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, V.le Berti Pichat, 5, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, V.le Berti Pichat, 5, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
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Weymar M, Ventura-Bort C, Wendt J, Lischke A. Behavioral and neural evidence of enhanced long-term memory for untrustworthy faces. Sci Rep 2019; 9:19217. [PMID: 31844252 PMCID: PMC6915708 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-55705-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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In daily life, we automatically form impressions of other individuals on basis of subtle facial features that convey trustworthiness. Because these face-based judgements influence current and future social interactions, we investigated how perceived trustworthiness of faces affects long-term memory using event-related potentials (ERPs). In the current study, participants incidentally viewed 60 neutral faces differing in trustworthiness, and one week later, performed a surprise recognition memory task, in which the same old faces were presented intermixed with novel ones. We found that after one week untrustworthy faces were better recognized than trustworthy faces and that untrustworthy faces prompted early (350–550 ms) enhanced frontal ERP old/new differences (larger positivity for correctly remembered old faces, compared to novel ones) during recognition. Our findings point toward an enhanced long-lasting, likely familiarity-based, memory for untrustworthy faces. Even when trust judgments about a person do not necessarily need to be accurate, a fast access to memories predicting potential harm may be important to guide social behaviour in daily life.
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- Mathias Weymar
- Department of Biological Psychology and Affective Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
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- Department of Biological Psychology and Affective Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology and Affective Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.,Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
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Mattarozzi K, Colonnello V, Thayer JF, Ottaviani C. Trusting your heart: Long-term memory for bad and good people is influenced by resting vagal tone. Conscious Cogn 2019; 75:102810. [PMID: 31479930 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2019] [Revised: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Several studies have highlighted the role of heart rate variability (HRV) in social engagement and social cognition. However, whether HRV is involved in the ability to remember faces associated with affectively salient behavioural information remains unexplored. The present study aims to close this gap by investigating long-term face-memory accuracy in individuals differing in resting vagally-mediated HRV. Individuals with high or low resting HRV viewed faces associated with episodic information differing in affective valence (positive, neutral, negative) or without any behavioural description. After one week, a face recognition test was administered. High HRV individuals were better at recognizing faces paired with positive and negative behavioural descriptions compared to neutral faces or faces without descriptions. Conversely, low HRV participants did not show any face memory advantage from personal information. The present results suggest that HRV may provide a novel biological marker of long-term face recognition.
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- Katia Mattarozzi
- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, USA
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Heart rate variability is associated with social value orientation in males but not females. Sci Rep 2018; 8:7336. [PMID: 29743602 PMCID: PMC5943302 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25739-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Phylogenetic and neurobiological theories suggest that inter-individual differences in high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) are associated with inter-individual differences in social behavior and social cognition. To test these theories, we investigated whether individuals with high and low HF-HRV would show different preferences for cooperative behavior in social contexts. We recorded resting state HF-HRV in 84 healthy individuals before they completed the Social Value Orientation task, a well-established measure of cooperative preferences. HF-HRV was derived from short-term (300 s) and ultra-short-term (60 s, 120 s) recordings of participants’ heart rate to determine the robustness of possible findings. Irrespective of recording length, we found a sex-dependent association between inter-individual differences in HF-HRV and inter-individual differences in social value orientation: The preference for cooperation was more pronounced among individuals with high as compared low HF-HRV, albeit only in male and not in female participants. These findings suggest that males with high HF-HRV are more inclined to engage in cooperative behavior than males with low HF-HRV.
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