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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 5

2019 May - 13 articles

Cover Story: This study is based on the relationship between meditation, the present moment, and psychophysiology. The present moment was operationalized using the metronome task, and performance was compared before and after two interventions (meditation, story). The aim was to assess whether heart and breathing activity during meditation influence the temporal integration of metronome beats. Meditators either meditated or listened to a story. The heart and breathing activity were recorded during the intervention and compared to a resting condition. Meditation led to longer integration intervals at the metronome frequency of 3 s interstimulus interval (ISI), and higher heart rate variability was associated with longer integration intervals at 0.33 s ISI. Higher breathing rates led to longer integration intervals at 1 s ISI. These findings add to the body of evidence of meditation-induced changes on temporal integration. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,570 Views
15 Pages

Attentional Fluctuations, Cognitive Flexibility, and Bilingualism in Kindergarteners

  • Stephanie L. Haft,
  • Olga Kepinska,
  • Jocelyn N. Caballero,
  • Manuel Carreiras and
  • Fumiko Hoeft

The idea of a bilingual advantage in aspects of cognitive control—including cognitive flexibility, inhibition, working memory, and attention—is disputed. Using a sample of kindergarten children, the present study investigated associations...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
14,563 Views
14 Pages

Is Sertraline a Good Pharmacological Strategy to Control Anger? Results of a Systematic Review

  • Ángel Romero-Martínez,
  • Sonia Murciano-Martí and
  • Luis Moya-Albiol

Introduction: Extensive research has made it possible to conclude that dysfunctions in serotoninergic transmission are associated with a tendency toward violence and behavioral dysregulations in humans. In this regard, it has been suggested that sele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,619 Views
20 Pages

Screen based media have progressively become an integral part in the daily lives of children and youths with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, research that exclusively pursues the functionality of screen media use of children with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,051 Views
7 Pages

The present study aimed to investigate the association between trait emotional intelligence and heart rate variability (HRV) recovery responses of archers immediately after a shooting session. The sample included 87 novice archers ranging in age from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,289 Views
12 Pages

Background. Research shows that early childbearing is associated negatively with educational attainment and socioeconomic status (SES). Children born to young versus older mothers often do less well in school, and many have early first births. Some s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
12,691 Views
11 Pages

Suicidal Ideation in Bereavement: A Systematic Review

  • Nicolette Molina,
  • Martin Viola,
  • Madeline Rogers,
  • Daniel Ouyang,
  • James Gang,
  • Heather Derry and
  • Holly G. Prigerson

Background: Bereavement is associated with impaired mental health, increases in adverse health behaviors, and heightened risk of suicidal ideation, attempts, and death by suicide. The purpose of this literature review was to explore associations betw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,100 Views
14 Pages

Steroid Metabolites Support Evidence of Autism as a Spectrum

  • Benedikt Andreas Gasser,
  • Johann Kurz,
  • Bernhard Dick and
  • Markus Georg Mohaupt

Objectives: It is common nowadays to refer to autism as a spectrum. Increased evidence of the involvement of steroid metabolites has been shown by the presence of stronger alterations in Kanner’s syndrome compared with Asperger syndrome. Method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,279 Views
13 Pages

A Study of Role Stressors and Job Satisfaction: The Case of MNCs in Collectivist Context

  • Saif-ud- Din,
  • Mohammad Ishfaq,
  • Muhammad Imran Khan and
  • Muhammad Asif Khan

Job stressors in organizational studies are commonly known as role stressors. These include role overload (RO), role conflict (RC), role ambiguity (RA) and job insecurity (JI). We explored the predicting role of these stressors on the overall level o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,478 Views
9 Pages

As a basic psychological need, the level of perceived competence could expedite the achievement of diabetes self-management goals. Because of a lack of a specific data collection tool to measure the level of self-competence among Persian-speaking pat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,960 Views
18 Pages

Meditation-Induced States, Vagal Tone, and Breathing Activity Are Related to Changes in Auditory Temporal Integration

  • Damisela Linares Gutierrez,
  • Sebastian Kübel,
  • Anne Giersch,
  • Stefan Schmidt,
  • Karin Meissner and
  • Marc Wittmann

This study is based on the relationship between meditation, the present moment, and psychophysiology. We employed the metronome task to operationalize the extension of the present moment. A pre-post longitudinal study was conducted. The performance i...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,444 Views
4 Pages

Research Commentary: A Carer’s Roadmap for Research, Practice, and Policy on Suicide, Homicide, and Self-Harm

  • Anonymous Members of the Peninsula Public Involvement Group,
  • Kristin Liabo and
  • Siobhan O’Dwyer

Academic researchers are increasingly asked to engage with the wider world, both in terms of creating impact from their work, and in telling the world what goes on in university research departments. An aspect of this engagement involves working with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,891 Views
17 Pages

de novo Blood Biomarkers in Autism: Autoantibodies against Neuronal and Glial Proteins

  • Mohamed B. Abou-Donia,
  • Hagir B. Suliman,
  • Dario Siniscalco,
  • Nicola Antonucci,
  • Passent ElKafrawy and
  • Mulugu V. Brahmajothi

29 April 2019

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are the most common neurodevelopmental disorders with unidentified etiology. The behavioral manifestations of ASD may be a consequence of genetic and/or environmental pathology in neurodevelopmental processes. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,748 Views
16 Pages

28 April 2019

The Common Ticket, locally called the “Spider Card” is a contactless smartcard ticket used for public transportation systems in Thailand. The card is used for all modes of transportation and increases the convenience of public transit pas...

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