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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Trimodal brain imaging: A novel approach for simultaneous investigation of human brain function129
The intrinsic functional connectivity of psychopathy and its relation to self-control73
The impact of self-esteem and interpersonal relationships on the processing of verbal violence: Evidence from ERPs62
Deficits of proactive control in individuals with test anxiety: Evidence from ERPs57
Peripheral body temperature rhythm as a marker of the severity of depression symptoms in fibromyalgia51
Arousal, Gray’s theory of anxiety, and the etiology of psychopathy51
Affective touch during the processing of angry facial expressions: an event-related potential study46
Guest Editorial: The inner immune voice: Can we explicitly sense antibody response to Covid-19 vaccination?43
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is associated with consolidation of episodic memory during sleep43
The photic blink reflex as an index of photophobia40
An exploratory study of hypnosis-induced blood count changes in chronically stressed individuals38
Respiratory psychophysiology and COVID-19: A research agenda37
Editorial Board36
Effects of retrieval and emotion on within-item associative memory – Evidence from ERP and oscillatory subsequent memory effects34
Introduction to the 2022 special issue on neuroscience and psychobiology of respiration in Biological Psychology34
Neutral and threatening distracter word stimuli are unnecessarily stored in working memory but do not differ in their degree of working memory storage33
Embodied power: Specific facial muscles automatically respond to power-related information processing31
Amygdala-driven apnea: A breath of fresh air in respiratory neurobiology28
Feature-based attention interacts with emotional picture content during mid-latency and late ERP processing stages25
An apnea-hypothesis of anxiety generation: Novel, respiratory, and falsifiable25
The neural basis of decision-making during time-based inter-role conflict24
Editorial Board24
Patterns of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms in early adolescence24
Altered local gyrification index and corresponding resting-state functional connectivity in individuals with high test anxiety23
Neurophysiological correlates for dynamic variability between vigilance and avoidance in test anxiety22
List of Reviewers22
Editorial Board22
Editorial Board21
Expending effort may share neural responses with reward and evokes high subjective satisfaction21
Differentiating reactivity and regulation: Evidence for a role of prefrontal asymmetry in affect regulation20
Trait state occasion (TSO) modeling of event-related potentials (ERPs)20
Affective content of simple geometric shapes promotes visual size perception20
Meanness and deficits in facial affect processing: Evidence from the N17020
Using N2pc variability to probe functionality: Linear mixed modelling of trial EEG and behaviour19
The effect of sad mood on early sensory event-related potentials to task-irrelevant faces19
Beyond the diaphragm: Leveraging isometric pelvic muscle contractions to enhance heart-brain-entrainment during resonance breathing.18
The neural network underlying individual differences in conflict adaptation effect18
The influence of contextual uncertainty on facial expression processing: Evidence from behavior and ERPs17
Interoception in patients with fibromyalgia compared to healthy controls16
Respiratory-locked network-level differences in resting-state BOLD signals of meditators and controls16
The influence of slow-paced breathing on emotional valence and intensity16
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 potentials15
Neural processing of errors in patients with asthma15
Resonance breathing can improve cardiac interoception through the modulation of cardiovascular mechanisms14
Respiratory interoception: measurement and connectomic fingerprinting14
Selective memory detection: Context-dependent stimulus significance in the concealed information test14
Heart rate reactivity mediates the relationship between trait gratitude and acute myocardial infarction14
Respiratory rate modulation of pupil oscillations and attentional stability14
Provider perspectives on mHealth with remote spirometry to address health disparities in COPD care14
Heart rate during sleep in PTSD patients: Moderation by contact with a service dog14
Improvement of exertional dyspnea in patients with COPD and severe allergic asthma responding to omalizumab14
Neurophysiological responses in the combination of slow-paced breathing and tDCS neuromodulation14
Comparison of respiratory interoceptive accuracy with other organ domains: A scoping review14
Chinese character unitization enhances item memory in addition to associative memory: Evidence from ERP and TFR14
High trait anxiety blocks olfactory plasticity induced by aversive learning13
Neural correlates of statistical learning in developmental dyslexia: An electroencephalography study13
Age-related differences in associative memory recognition of Chinese characters and hippocampal subfield volumes13
Fundamental behavioral and neurophysiologic relationships between sensory processing, intolerance of uncertainty, and autistic traits in children: A hybrid approach13
A heartbeat away from a valid tracking task. An empirical comparison of the mental and the motor tracking task13
Left superior parietal lobe mediates the link between spontaneous mind-wandering tendency and task-switching performance13
Acute fasting modulates autonomic nervous system function and ambulatory cardiac interoception13
Context matters: Neural processing of food-flavored e-cigarettes and the influence of smoking13
Socioeconomic status moderates neural markers of cognitive reappraisal across preschool13
The mediating role of Vitamin D in the association between personality and memory: Evidence from two samples13
Effect of homeostatic pressure and circadian arousal on the storage and executive components of working memory: Evidence from EEG power spectrum13
Metabolic state modulates neural processing of odors in the human olfactory bulb12
A single session of sensorimotor rhythm neurofeedback enhances long-game performance in professional golfers12
Modulation of anticipatory brain activity as a function of action complexity12
Temporal dynamics of spatial attentional biases toward weight-related words among females with weight dissatisfaction12
Infants’ psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a human and with a humanoid robot12
The associations among sleep-related difficulties, anxiety, and error-related brain activity in youth12
Interpersonal stressors predicting inflammation in adolescents: Moderation by emotion regulation and heart rate variability?12
Impact of serotonergic medication on interoception in major depressive disorder11
Stroop in motion: Neurodynamic modulation underlying interference control while sitting, standing, and walking11
Supervised structure learning11
Event-related brain potentials reveal strategy selection in younger and older adults11
Tensor decomposition of human narrowband oscillatory brain activity in frequency, space and time11
Dysfunction of the anterior and intermediate hippocampal functional network in major depressive disorders across the adult lifespan11
Acute stress influences strategy preference when dealing with high intensity emotions in men11
Pre-treatment hippocampal functioning impacts context renewal for cholinergic modulated exposure therapy11
Development and recovery time of mental fatigue and its impact on motor function11
Total cortisol output during an acute stressor predicts youths’ internalizing symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Actions of a shaken heart: Interoception interacts with action processing11
Turning a blind eye to motor differences leads to bias in estimating action-related auditory ERP attenuation11
Emerging biomarkers for child & family intervention studies: A review of EEG studies of parenting10
Capturing emotion coherence in daily life: Using ambulatory physiology measures and ecological momentary assessments to examine within-person associations and individual differences10
Temporal profiles of cortical oscillations in novice performers for goal-directed aiming in a shooting task10
Central nervous activity during a dot probe task with facial expressions in fibromyalgia10
Markers of emotion regulation processes: A neuroimaging and behavioral study of reappraising abilities10
Examining transactional associations between maternal internalizing symptoms, infant negative emotionality, and infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia10
Up close and emotional: Electrophysiological dynamics of approaching angry faces10
Two effects of perceived speaker similarity in resolving the cocktail party situation – ERPs and functional connectivity10
Hippocampal and amygdala volumes vary with transdiagnostic psychopathological dimensions of distress, anxious arousal, and trauma10
Unique associations between conditioned cognitive and physiological threat responses and facets of anxiety symptomatology in youth10
Auditory N1 and P2 attenuation in action observation: An event-related potential study considering effects of temporal predictability and individualism9
Did you say my name? Congruency of 12-month-old infants’ behavioral and cardiac responses to name9
Prolonged NoGo P3 latency as a possible neurobehavioral correlate of aggressive and antisocial behaviors: A Go/NoGo ERP study9
Overgeneralization of fear, but not avoidance, following acute stress9
Endocannabinoid system reactivity during stress processing in healthy humans9
Neuroplastic changes in anterior cingulate cortex gray matter volume and functional connectivity following attention bias modification in high trait anxious individuals9
Corrigendum to “Systolic blood pressure mediates the association between body mass index and inhibitory control in children” [Biological Psychology 157 (November) (2020) 107988]9
Expectation predicts performance in the mental heartbeat tracking task9
Differences between high and low performers in face recognition in electrophysiological correlates of face familiarity and distance-to-norm9
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), vagal tone and biobehavioral integration: Beyond parasympathetic function9
The time it takes to truly know someone: Neurophysiological correlates of face and identity learning during the first two years9
The time course of lexical and sublexical phonological activation in Chinese written production8
Towards a comprehensive assessment of interoception in a multi-dimensional framework8
An exploratory analysis of testosterone, cortisol, and aggressive behavior type in men and women8
Is it a painful error? The effect of unpredictability and intensity of punishment on the error-related negativity, and somatosensory evoked potentials8
Corrigendum to “Frontal alpha asymmetry moderates the relations between behavioral inhibition and social-effect ERN” [Biological Psychology (2019) 10–16]8
Advancing models and methods of emotional concordance8
How salience enhances inhibitory control: An analysis of electro-cortical mechanisms8
Exploring emotional dynamic within-person concordance across laboratory tasks: Moderation of between-person SES and sexual orientation8
The relationship between self-reported chronic stress, physiological stress axis dysregulation and medically-unexplained symptoms8
Life events are associated with elevated heart rate and reduced heart complexity to acute psychological stress8
Stimulus novelty and emotionality interact in the processing of visual distractors8
Physiological reactions at encoding selectively predict recognition of emotional images8
How to account for respiration in respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Publication standards for heart rate variability studies in Biological Psychology8
Corrigendum to “The Cardiac Timing Toolbox (CaTT): Testing for physiologically plausible effects of cardiac timing on behaviour” [Biological Psychology 170 (2022) 180291]8
An investigation of the somatosensory engagement during autonomous sensory meridian response: An ERP study7
Study protocol of an individual thresholding procedure assessing respiratory interoception using non-invasive resistances and occlusions7
Effects of differential fear conditioning on the perception and neural processing of respiratory stimulation7
Baby don’t cry: Unconscious sensitivity to sad baby faces7
Is there a cost to caring? Dispositional affective empathy interacts with depressive symptoms to predict higher C-reactive protein 8 years later7
Volitional control capacity of cough in atypical parkinsonism7
Anticipatory processing increases attentional biases to disgust faces in socially anxious individuals: Evidence from the N2pc and CDA7
Fast-paced breathing interventions in sports: Testing the physiological effects on the autonomic nervous system7
Snake oil or panacea: why does heart rate variability biofeedback produce so many beneficial effects? A review of EEG and fMRI studies7
Racial differences in sympathetic nervous system indicators: Implications and challenges for research7
Processing of emotional faces in sexual offenders with and without child victims: An eye-tracking study with pupillometry7
Investigating the effects of slow- and fast-paced breathing on heart beat-evoked potential and its relationship with heart rate variability and pre-ejection period7
Combining slow-paced breathing with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to enhance emotion regulation? A multimodal investigation7
Slow-paced breathing as a momentary intervention to improve parasympathetic cardiac regulation, anxiety, and perseverative thoughts – a feasibility study7
Operationalisation of interoceptive expectations: A novel paradigm to measure detection and Adjustment to Interoceptive Discrepancy7
Anticipatory cardiac deceleration estimates cognitive performance in virtual reality beyond tonic heart period and heart period variability7
Capsaicin-induced pain increases neural responses to low-calorie non-spicy food cues: An ERP study7
Aiding diagnosis of childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder of the inattentive presentation: Discriminant function analysis of multi-domain measures including EEG6
Biological Psychology, as it appears today: Tribute to the past, embrace of the future6
A biomarker of maternal vicarious reward processing and its association with parenting behavior6
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 stimulus6
Visual-cortical enhancement by acoustic distractors: The effects of endogenous spatial attention and visual working memory load6
Editorial Board6
Do prepubertal hormones, 2D:4D index and psychosocial context jointly explain 11-year-old preadolescents’ involvement in bullying?6
The P300, loneliness, and depression in older adults6
Role of the valuation of nervousness in cortisol responses to psychosocial stress task and task performance in European American and East Asian students6
Evidence that pupil dilation and cardiac afferent signalling differentially impact the processing of emotional intensity and racial bias6
Anticipated stress predicts the cortisol awakening response: An intensive longitudinal pilot study6
Behavioral and ERP indices of self-schematic processing show differential associations with emerging symptoms of depression and social anxiety in late childhood: Evidence from a community-dwelling sam6
Different psychophysiological responses induced by a stimulus change during the orienting task and the Concealed Information Test6
Psychometric properties of the late positive potential in adult females6
Sex differences in medication-naïve adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A counting Stroop functional MRI study6
List of reviewers6
Meanness and affective processing: A meta-analysis of EEG findings on emotional face processing in individuals with psychopathic traits6
The impact of attention bias modification training on behavioral and physiological responses6
Effects of the number of competing responses on neural signatures of pre- and post-response conflict6
Editorial Board6
Fear, psychophysiological arousal, and cognitions during a virtual social skills training in social anxiety disorder while manipulating gaze duration6
Social and non-social gaze cueing in autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and a comorbid group6
Changes in brain activity related to episodic memory retrieval in adults with single domain amnestic mild cognitive impairment6
Editorial Board6
Neural empathic response to disability: An ERP study of prejudice6
Commentary to: Standardization of facial electromyographic responses by van Boxtel and van der Graaff6
Editorial Board6
Scene effects on disgusted facial expression detection in individuals with social anxiety: The role of emotional intensity6
Spontaneous eye blink rate mediates the relationship between sleepiness and impulsivity to negative stimuli5
The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect in highly math-anxious individuals: An ERP study5
Catching the audience in a job interview: Effects of emotion regulation strategies on subjective, physiological, and behavioural responses5
The levels of soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) in saliva are influenced by acute stress5
Numbers (but not words) make math anxious individuals sweat: Physiological evidence5
Attenuation of auditory N2 for self-modulated tones during continuous actions5
Action-related auditory ERP attenuation is not modulated by action effect relevance5
Facial emotion perception in young female students with subsyndromal panic disorder. Behavioral and ERP study5
Letter to the Editor: A common neural correlate for affective and monetary reward5
Disinhibition of right inferior frontal gyrus underlies alpha asymmetry in women with low testosterone5
Preliminary data on increased reactivity towards children in distress after testosterone administration in women: A matter of protection?5
Individual differences in parent and child average RSA and parent psychological distress influence parent-child RSA synchrony5
Being watched by a humanoid robot and a human: Effects on affect-related psychophysiological responses5
Visual short-term memory load modulates repetition related fMRI signal adaptation5
Early reduction of sensory processing within the visual cortex when switching from internal to external attention5
Association between EEG asymmetry and the error-related negativity across middle childhood5
Concurrent and prospective associations between infant frontoparietal and default mode network connectivity and negative affectivity5
Cardiac cycle affects risky decision-making5
Trait anxiety is related to an impaired attention model for controllable threat cues: Evidence from ERPs5
The relationship between testosterone and social cognition in younger and older adults5
Inter-trial variability in postural control and brain activation: Effects of previous opiate abuse5
Individual differences in frontal alpha asymmetry moderate the relationship between acute stress responsivity and state and trait anxiety in adolescents5
Androstadienone influences women’s perception of happiness and anger on same-sex faces: Preliminary findings5
Response inhibition is disrupted by interoceptive processing at cardiac systole5
When old information is intermixed with new elements: An event-related potential study5
Physiological linkage in pregnancy: Couples’ cortisol, negative conflict behavior, and postpartum depression5
Editorial: Biological Psychology in the rearview mirror—From the clinic to the clinic5
Neural mechanisms underlying competition-induced optimal decisions in individuals with high entrepreneurial intention4
Enhanced or impoverished recruitment of top-down attentional control of inhibition in test anxiety4
Cardiac parasympathetic activity in female patients with borderline personality disorder predicts approach/avoidance behavior towards angry faces4
Interdependent self-construal predicts increased gray matter volume of scene processing regions in the brain4
Drinking alcohol by mid-adolescence is related to reduced reward reactivity: Novel evidence of positive valence system alterations in early initiating female youth4
Corrigendum to “Influence of lighting color temperature on effort-related cardiac response” [Biol. Psychol. 132 (2018) 64–70]4
Socioeconomic status moderates the relationship between self-esteem and attitudes towards conspicuous consumption: An electrophysiological study4
Face emojis vs. Non-face emojis: Exploring neural mechanisms in text processing4
Training semantic long-term memory retrieval transfers to executive function and reading fluency4
Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal and autonomic nervous system biomarkers of stress and tobacco relapse: Review of the research4
EEG correlates of neutral working memory training induce attentional control improvements in test anxiety4
Returning a smile: Initiating a social interaction with a facial emotional expression influences the evaluation of the expression received in return4
The heart as judge: Association of heart rate variability with moral judgement—A replication study4
Effects of depressive symptoms on regulating emotional goals: Preferences for distinct facial emotions4
The effect of trait anxiety on the time course of self-relevant processing: Evidence from the perceptual matching task4
Multimodal neuroimaging of hierarchical cognitive control4
Editorial Board4
Working memory training for reward processing in university students with subsyndromal depression: The influence of baseline severity of depression4
Imagining the baby: Neural reactivity to infant distress and mind-mindedness in expectant parents4
Abnormal neurophysiological sensitivity to rewards in depression is moderated by sex and age in middle adulthood4
The effect of haptic stimulation simulating heartbeats on the regulation of physiological responses and prosocial behavior under stress: The influence of interoceptive accuracy4
Modulation of heartbeat-evoked potential and cardiac cycle effect by auditory stimuli4
“The way I see it makes me believe you intentionally did it”: Intentionality ascription and gaze transition entropy in violent offenders4
Can personal task choice shield against fear and anger prime effects on effort? A study on cardiac response4
A multichannel investigation of proprioceptive accuracy4
The effect of short-term training on repetition probability effects for non-face objects4
The relationship between ensemble coding and individual representation of crowd facial emotion4
Breathing control, brain, and bodily self-consciousness: Toward immersive digiceuticals to alleviate respiratory suffering4
Influence of flavor information on visual search: Attentional capture by and suppression of flavor-associated colors4
Trait reward sensitivity modulates connectivity with the temporoparietal junction and Anterior Insula during strategic decision making4
Corrigendum to “The impact of cardiac phases on multisensory integration” [Biological Psychology 182 (2023) 108642]4
The evolution of sociality and the polyvagal theory4
Automatic emotion regulation prompts response inhibition to angry faces in sub-clinical depression: An ERP study4
The residential stability mindset increases racial in-group bias in empathy4
Slow stroking evokes a more pleasant sensation but similar autonomic nervous system response than rhythmic touching4
Influence of visual food cues on autonomic activity and craving4
The influence of false interoceptive feedback on emotional state and balance responses to height-induced postural threat4
Compensating for the mobile menace with extra effort: A pupillometry investigation of the mere presence effect of smartphones4
Pupil dilation predicts modulation of direct gaze on action value calculations4
Reduced early neural processing of faces in children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder4
Triathletes are experts in self-regulating physical activity – But what about self-regulating neural activity?4
Neural correlates of peer evaluation in irritable adolescents: Linking anticipation to receipt of social feedback4
Letter to the Editor: Stimulus intensities and sensory modalities constitute two major challenges for online threat conditioning research4
Anxiety increases sensitivity to errors and negative feedback over time3
Dissociating breathlessness symptoms from mood in asthma3
Right anterior theta connectivity predicts autistic social traits in typically developing children3
Social exclusion modulates neural dynamics of monetary and social reward processing in young adult females3
Subtypes of insomnia revealed by the heterogeneity of neuroanatomical patterns: A structural MRI study3
Concordance of mother-child respiratory sinus arrythmia is continually moderated by dynamic changes in emotional content of film stimuli3
Strong hearts, open minds: Cardiovascular challenge predicts non-defensive responses to ingroup-perpetrated violence3
Not all “caregivers” are created equal: Liking, caring and facial expression responses to the baby schema as a function of parenthood and testosterone3
Objective underpinnings of self-reported sleep quality in middle-aged and older adults: The importance of N2 and wakefulness3
Stronger spatial bias induced more by numbers in mind than numbers in eye: Evidence from event-related potentials3
Explicit face memory abilities are positively related to the non-intentional encoding of faces: Behavioral and ERP evidence3
Romantic partner presence and physiological responses in daily life: Attachment style as a moderator3
The influence of variability on mismatch negativity amplitude3
Altered neural correlates of optimal decision-making in individuals with depressive status3
Impaired empathic accuracy following damage to the left hemisphere3
Heterosexual men’s pupillary responses to stimuli depicting cisgender males, cisgender females, and gynandromorphs3
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