Variations in resting frontal alpha asymmetry between high‐ and low‐neuroticism females across the menstrual cycle

Huang, Yamei; Zhou, Renlai; Cui, Hong; Wu, Mengying; Wang, Qingguo; Zhao, Yan; Liu, Yanfeng

doi:10.1111/psyp.12301

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“…Only three studies were conducted on a sample equally balanced regarding gender [28,39,44]. However, in some studies, we did not find any information about gender [48] (study 1 presented in the article), [55,67], mean age or standard deviation [26][27][28]33,35,[38][39][40]47,48,[54][55][56]59,60,64,67], and education [38,44,51,52], (see Table 1). Assuming the heterogeneity of the constructs and the paradigms examined, some researchers included confounding variables (such as gender, age, education) and interactional variables (such as sex of experimenters, time of day and time of year, open and closed eyes, and EEG reference) in the statistical analyses.…”

Section: Demographic Featuresmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The studies showed a percentage of men and women variable. In some cases, samples were composed by only women [26,27,57,58,60,66] and, in other cases, there were samples of only men [35], [45] (study 2 presented in the article), [52] (study 3 presented in the article), [53]. Only three studies were conducted on a sample equally balanced regarding gender [28,39,44].…”

Section: Demographic Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among studies testing the association between resting-EEG activity and BIS (or parallel measures), 11 articles have considered the role of state or trait anxiety [27,29,34,40,43,44,47,49,63,69,71], four articles studied the role of negative affect [26,28,29,57], 21 articles evaluated the role of neuroticism [29][30][31][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]43,49,51,[53][54][55][56][60][61][62]70], three articles considered the role of defensiveness [27,30,43], seven articles studied the role of depression trait [27,40,[42][43][44]63,71] and finally, one study considered the role of nostalgia [62].…”

Section: Approach/avoidance Personality Traits and Electrocortical Mementioning

confidence: 99%

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EEG Resting Asymmetries and Frequency Oscillations in Approach/Avoidance Personality Traits: A Systematic Review

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Pascalis

2020

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Background: Brain cortical activity in resting electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings can be considered as measures of latent individual disposition to approach/avoidance behavior. This systematic review aims to provide an updated overview of the relationship between resting EEG cortical activity and approach/avoidance motivation personality traits. Methods: The review process was conducted according to the PRISMA-Statement, using PsycArticles, MEDLINE, Scopus, Science Citation Index, and Research Gate database. Restrictions were made by selecting EEG studies conducted in resting idling conditions, which included approach/avoidance personality traits or parallel measures, and an index of EEG brain activity. In the review 50 studies were selected, wherein 7120 healthy adult individuals participated. Results: The study of the relationship between resting EEG cortical activity and approach/avoidance personality traits provides controversial and unclear results. Therefore, the validity of resting asymmetry or frequency oscillations as a potential marker for approach/avoidance personality traits is not supported. Conclusions: There are important contextual and interactional factors not taken into account by researchers that could mediate or moderate this relationship or prove it scarcely replicable. Further, it would be necessary to conduct more sessions of EEG recordings in different seasons of the year to test the validity and the reliability of the neurobiological measures.

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Section: Approach/avoidance Personality Traits and Electrocortical Mementioning

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EEG Resting Asymmetries and Frequency Oscillations in Approach/Avoidance Personality Traits: A Systematic Review

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2020

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“…2. Note that while the validity of a Cz reference electrode for identifying the source of alpha activity has been contested (Hagemann, 2004), it nevertheless remains the most commonly used reference in FAA research (Amd & Roche, 2016;Coan & Allen, 2003;Huang et al, 2015) validating its employment for the present inquiry. For further details, see Footnote 2 in Amd and Roche (2016).…”

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Transforming valences through transitive inference: How are faces emotionally dissonant?

Amd

Roche

2017

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Information that is emotionally incongruous with self-concepts can produce feelings of unease. This implies that embedding incongruous information in newly formed relational structures would have little effect on their previous emotive properties. Alternatively, Relational Frame Theory highlights the importance of contextualized stimulus-stimulus relations, where the structure of a relational series is key in determining the function of its elements. To see whether series membership can mitigate 'dissonance' when a salient element is employed, the present investigation trained and tested a seven-term relational series (X>A>B>C>D>E>Y) using blurred faces as stimuli. Specifically, Stimuli X, A, B, D, E and Y were blurred unfamiliar faces and Stimulus C constituted of the participant's own blurred face, assumed to be more salient than the former. To assess how the valences of the related stimuli were transformed by relational series membership, self-report ratings and electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings were collected before and after training the X>A>B>C>D>E>Y series. These pre vs. post contrasts revealed that, for unfamiliar faces, stimulus valence transformed as a function of relational structure. Conversely, the lack of difference in pre vs. post contrasts of Stimulus C, which maintained a high valence, suggest that relational series membership may not suffice to mitigate emotionally dissonant information. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Although the details of this matter are beyond the scope of the present article, it suffices to say that Cz has been the most commonly used reference in the FAA research (Coan & Allen, 2003) and continues to be a popular reference of choice (cf. Huang et al, 2014). Given that numerous studies have successfully predicted relationships using the Cz reference, it may be the case that published results utilizing Cz may not only reflect an FAA effect in relation to the construct under investigation, but also sources of variance unique to Cz (Allen, Coan, & Nazarian, 2004).…”

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A derived transformation of emotional functions using self-reports, implicit association tests, and frontal alpha asymmetries

Amd

Roche

2015

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Research on the derived transformation of stimulus functions (ToF) typically employs single dependent measures for assessing the stimulus functions after derived relations have been established. For the first time, we examined ToF using three dependent measures both prior to and after relational training and testing. Specifically, we employed self-reports, implicit association tests, and frontal alpha asymmetry as pre versus post measures for assessing ToF. First, we trained two abstract shapes as contextual cues for happier-than and unhappier-than relations, respectively. Next, four conditional discriminations (A+/B-, B+/C-, C+/D-, and D+/E-) were trained in the presence of the happier-than cue only, where A, B, C, D, and E were blurred faces. This was followed by tests for contextually controlled transitive inference (TI) in the presence of both the happier-than and unhappier-than cues. For the participants who demonstrated TI, performance across all three measures following relational training and testing indicated that the Bhappiness^functions of the A/B stimuli were greater than those of the D/E stimuli. This constitutes the first known demonstration of emotional ToF along explicit, implicit, and neurophysiological measures concurrently. Keywords Transformation of functions . Frontal alpha asymmetry . Transitive inference . Symbolic relationsVarious organisms can infer a relation between a wide array of stimuli given a common, mediating stimulus, and in so doing demonstrate what has been called a Btransitive inference^ (TI;Vasconcelos, 2008). To illustrate TI in a human, imagine we provide a participant with the following statements-BAdam is happier than Bob,^BBob is happier than Carry,^BCarry is happier than Dan,^and BDan is happier than Eden.^If he or she were then asked to select the Bhappier^individual from between Bob and Dan, selecting Bob would be deemed a demonstration of TI, since to provide the correct answer required making an inference based on the common node (Carry) that Bob and Dan are both related to (i.e

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Variations in resting frontal alpha asymmetry between high‐ and low‐neuroticism females across the menstrual cycle

Cited by 20 publications

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EEG Resting Asymmetries and Frequency Oscillations in Approach/Avoidance Personality Traits: A Systematic Review

EEG Resting Asymmetries and Frequency Oscillations in Approach/Avoidance Personality Traits: A Systematic Review

Transforming valences through transitive inference: How are faces emotionally dissonant?

A derived transformation of emotional functions using self-reports, implicit association tests, and frontal alpha asymmetries

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