Browsing Scholarly Works, Department of Psychology by Issue Date
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Attentional control mediates fearful responding to an ecologically valid stressor
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016-01-02)Background and Objectives: Attentional control (AC) is defined as the ability to voluntarily shift and disengage attention, and is thought to moderate the relationship between pre-existing risk factors for fear and the ... -
Individual Differences in Anticipatory Somatosensory Cortex Activity for Shock is Positively Related with Trait Anxiety and Multisensory Integration
(MDPI, 2016-01-16)Anxiety is associated with an exaggerated expectancy of harm, including overestimation of how likely a conditioned stimulus (CS+) predicts a harmful unconditioned stimulus (US). In the current study we tested whether ... -
Acquired German Accent: A Functional Neural Systems Approach to Foreign Accent Syndrome
(2016-01-27)First described by French neurologist Pierre Marie in 1907, foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare speech disorder in which individuals take on, what is perceived by observers, to be a distinct accent differing in many ... -
Frontal lobe regulatory control mechanisms: Evidence for diminished frontal eye field capacity in hostile violence-prone men.
(2016-02-03)Background: The experiment was designed to test the relationship between self-reported hostility and the capacity of frontal eye field regulatory control over visual smooth pursuit eye movements. Previous research has ... -
Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD)
(Springer, 2016-02-04)Anxiety is known to be a commonly, co-occurring phenomenon with autism. Also, in daily practice, these symptoms often are confused with core symptoms of autism. Accurately determining OCD and anxiety from autism has important ... -
Negative functional coupling between the right fronto-parietal and limbic resting state networks predicts increased self-control and later substance use onset in adolescence
(Elsevier, 2016-06-17)Recent developmental brain imaging studies have demonstrated that negatively coupled prefrontal-limbic circuitry implicates the maturation of brain development in adolescents. Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance ... -
Impaired Fear Recognition and Social Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescence
(2016-07-11)This study represents the first examination of adolescent anxiety in relation to peer emotion recognition, rather than adult emotion recognition. Additionally, we examine potential mechanisms for the development of social ... -
Primary Versus Secondary Diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Youth: Is the Distinction an Important One?
(Springer, 2016-08-01)Examine whether children with a primary diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) differ from children with a secondary diagnosis of GAD on clinician, parent, teacher, and youth-report measures. Based on consensus ... -
Comparing oxytocin and cortisol regulation in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, hydrocortisone challenge pilot study in children with autism and typical development
(Springer New York, 2016-08-18)Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show marked impairment in social functioning and poor adaptation to new and changing contexts, which may be influenced by underlying regulatory processes. Oxytocin (OT) and ... -
Psychosocial and Computer-Assisted Intervention for College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Preliminary Support for Feasibility
(The Council for Exceptional Children, Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2016-09)The number of young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) enrolled in higher education institutions has steadily increased over the last decade. Despite this, there has been little research on how to most effectively ... -
Spatiotemporal dissociation of brain activity underlying threat and reward in social anxiety disorder
(Oxford University Press, 2016-10-19)Social anxiety disorder (SAD) involves abnormalities in social motivation, which may be independent of well-documented differences in fear and arousal systems. Yet, the neurobiology underlying motivational difficulties in ... -
Test-retest reliability of the Ruff Figural Fluency Test
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Spreading activation in nonverbal memory networks
(2016-11-28)Theories of spreading activation primarily involve semantic memory networks. However, the existence of separate verbal and visuospatial memory networks suggests that spreading activation may also occur in visuospatial ... -
Frontal lobe regulation of blood glucose levels: support for the limited capacity model in hostile violence-prone men.
(2016-12)Hostile men have reliably displayed an exaggerated sympathetic stress response across multiple experimental settings, with cardiovascular reactivity for blood pressure and heart rate concurrent with lateralized right frontal ... -
Love flows downstream: mothers’ and children’s neural representation similarity in perceiving distress of self and family
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The current study aimed to capture empathy processing in an interpersonal context. Mother–adolescent dyads (N¼22) each completed an empathy task during fMRI, in which they imagined the target person in distressing scenes ... -
A Little Goes a Long Way: Low Working Memory Load Is Associated with Optimal Distractor Inhibition and Increased Vagal Control under Anxiety
(Frontiers, 2017-02-03)Anxiety impairs both inhibition of distraction and attentional focus. It is unclear whether these impairments are reduced or exacerbated when loading working memory with nonaffective information. Cardiac vagal control has ...
