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PPSYP_C1.inddSYP_C1.indd 1 003/07/173/07/17 77:02:02 AAMM PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH Editor Monica Fabiani University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Senior Associate Editor Diane Filion Andreas Keil University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA University of Florida, USA J. Richard Jennings Sarah Laszlo University of Pittsburgh, USA Lisa Gatzke-Kopp Pennsylvania State University, USA Binghamton University, SUNY, USA Associate Editors Stephan Moratti Greg Hajcak University of Madrid, Spain Mustafa al'Absi Florida State University, USA University of Minnesota Medical School, USA Anna Whittaker (Phillips) Bruce D. Bartholow Erin A. Hazlett University of Birmingham, United Kingdom University of Missouri, USA Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA Brigitte Rockstroh Brett Clementz James J. 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ANXIETY, EXPECTATIONS, AND SENSORY THREAT PROCESSING S2 Symposium 2 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN FRONTAL EEG ASYMMETRY RESEARCH S3 Symposium 3 EXTRACTING REGULARITIES FROM SOUND SEQUENCES S4 Symposium 4 THE LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF SPORT-RELATED BRAIN INJURIES: INSIGHTS FROM PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH S5 Symposium 5 MAPPING A SPECTRUM OF AFFECTIVE REACTIVITY IN THE INTERNALIZING DISORDERS S6 Symposium 6 ELECTRO- AND MAGNETOCORTICAL MEASURES OF DEPRESSION: POTENTIAL RISK AND TREATMENT RESPONSE PREDICTORS S7 Symposium 7 COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF MISMATCH NEGATIVITY (MMN) S9 Symposium 8 FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE: ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN PSYCHIATRIC CARE S10 Symposium 9 BETA BAND MOTOR OSCILLATIONS AS A MARKER OF DECISION MAKING S11 Symposium 10 LIAR LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE? PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL DECEPTION DETECTION UNRAVELED S12 Symposium 11 TOWARD A PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF ANGER- AND AGGRESSION-RELATED PROCESSES S13 Symposium 12 USING OSCILLATORY BRAIN ACTIVITY AS A WINDOW INTO THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF SELECTIVE ATTENTION S14 Symposium 13 COGNITIVE BIASES IN HEALTH AND PSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS—LINKING OPTIMISM AND NEGATIVE BIASES S15 Symposium 14 SOCIAL CUES IN HUMAN VOICES S16 Symposium 15 VASCULAR FACTORS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE: AN INTRODUCTION TO INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH S17 Friday, October 13, 2017 Symposium 16 CONSTRUCTING RISKIER TESTS OF THEORY, LINKING PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA, AND INTRODUCING A NEW MECHANISTIC PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE S18 Symposium 17 GETTING SOCIAL – THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL PRESENCE ON OUR PERCEPTION, THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIOR S19 Symposium 18 INHIBITORY CONTROL AS A BIOBEHAVIORAL CONSTRUCT: NEURAL MECHANISMS, NEURODEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES, AND RELEVANCE TO EXTERNALIZING PSYCHOPATHOLOGY S20 Symposium 19 TIME-FREQUENCY, SOURCE, AND CONNECTIVITY APPROACHES TO STUDY DYNAMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN MONITORING, CONTROL AND ANXIETY ACROSS DEVELOPMENT S21 Presidential Symposium COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AND ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE NIMH RESEARCH DOMAIN CRITERIA (RDOC) INITIATIVE S22 Invited Symposium RECENT PROGRESS IN COMPARATIVE SOCIAL PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY S23 Symposium 20 NEW COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO P300 RESEARCH IN HUMANS S24 Symposium 21 FACE AND PERSON PERCEPTION AS A FUNCTION OF SOCIAL LEARNING S25 Symposium 22 EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON EMOTIONAL STIMULUS PROCESSING S26 Symposium 23 CURRENT ATTEMPTS AT UNDERSTANDING P3B'S FUNCTION S28 Symposium 24 MORE THAN JUST NOISE: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN FEAR ACQUISITION AND EXTINCTION S29 Symposium 25 FACE PERCEPTION: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND SPECIAL POPULATIONS S30 Symposium 26 IMPAIRED PROCESSING OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS DURING ANTICIPATION AND CONSUMMATION S31 Saturday, October 14, 2017 Symposium 27 BARORECEPTOR INFLUENCES ON AFFECTIVE AND NOCICEPTIVE PROCESSING S32 Panel Discussion 28 BRAIN, MIND, AND CONSCIOUSNESS: PROGRESS AND PITFALLS S33 Symposium 29 USING PHYSIOLOGICAL METHODS TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF SOCIALIZATION AGENTS AND PROCESSES ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT S34 Symposium 30 HIDDEN SECRETS WITHIN THE AVERAGED ERP WAVEFORM: MEANINGFUL TRIAL-BY-BEHAVIOR VARIANCE S35 Paper Session I S37 Paper Session II S38 Poster Session Abstracts S40 Index to Abstract Authors S176 Index to Abstract Descriptors S184 Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research The Hofburg, Vienna, Austria October 11–15, 2017 Website: www.sprweb.org The 2017 Annual Meeting Program includes three Pre-Conference Workshops, three Invited Addresses, two Invited Symposia, and the SPR Presidential Address. Specific research topics will be covered in the Symposia. The majority of the research reports will be discussed at four Poster Sessions. This Supplement contains the abstracts from each presentation in the Symposia and Poster Sessions. The abstracts are listed in the order in which they will occur at the Annual Meeting. All authors are listed in the Index to Abstract Authors. In addition, abstract topics are listed in the Index to Abstract Descriptors. We would like to thank all contributors for sharing their research and making this meeting a rich and stimulating event! Markus Ullsperger 2017 Program Committee Chair Program Committee (2016–2017) Markus Ullsperger, Otto-von-Guerke-Universit€at Magdeburg, (Program Chair) Sarah Laszlo, University of Binghamton, (2016 Program Chair) Anna Weinberg, McGill University (2018 Program Chair) Francisco Barcelo, University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca Ellen R.A. de Bruijn, Leiden University Boris Burle, University Aix Marseille Rebecca Burnside, Otto-von-Guericke-Universit€at Magdeburg James Cavanagh, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Mike X. Cohen, Radboud University Nijmegen Paul Corballis,
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