Two masked prime arrows simultaneously affect a response to a target: Revealing of an additive unconscious priming effect.

Since there are many sources of unconscious information in our minds, there is a possibility that multiple channels of unconscious information can affect a response at the same time. However, this question has been largely ignored by researchers. In the present study, we presented two opposite pointing arrows as the masked primes followed by a target arrow.

A comprehensive physiological and -Omic analysis of trypsin-mediated protection of green pepper fruits from chilling injury.

Chilling injury (CI) in green pepper fruits during low-temperature storage causes a significant decline in quality. The present study utilized physiological, transcriptomic, and metabolomic analyses to idneitfy the mechanisms by which trypsin mitigates CI in green peppers stored at 4 °C for 8 days, followed by 3 days of shelf life. Results indicated that the trypsin treatment significantly reduced electrolyte leakage and the CI index in peppers, effectively extending their shelf life and preserving postharvest quality.

The Impact of Praise on Cooperative Behavior in Three-Player Public Goods Games and Its Gender Differences.

Previous research has primarily focused on static factors influencing cooperative behavior in social dilemmas, with less attention given to dynamic factors within group social interactions, such as positive feedback received during interactions, i.e., praise.

Watching eyes effect: the impact of imagined eyes on prosocial behavior and satisfactions in the dictator game.

The concept of the watching eyes effect suggests that the presence of eye or eye-like cues can influence individual altruistic behavior. However, few studies have investigated the effects of imagined eyes on altruistic behaviors and the psychological measures of dictators and recipients in the dictator game. This study used a 2 (Presentation Mode: Imagined/Visual) 2 (Cue Type: Eye/Flower) between-subject design and measured the effects of recipients' psychological variables and the communication texts between the dictator and the recipient.

Brain Structures Associated With Individual Differences in Somatic Symptoms and Emotional Distress in a Healthy Sample.

Stress-related psychosomatic responses are viewed as important risks to our physical health. Growing evidence from structural imaging studies has implicated that stress and trauma exposures have negative effects on brain structural alterations. However, whether stress-related emotional distress and somatic symptoms are related to the structure of brain systems remains unclear.

The Relationships Between Trait Creativity and Resting-State EEG Microstates Were Modulated by Self-Esteem.

Numerous studies find that creativity is not only associated with low effort and flexible processes but also associated with high effort and persistent processes especially when defensive behavior is induced by negative emotions. The important role of self-esteem is to buffer negative emotions, and individuals with low self-esteem are prone to instigating various forms of defensive behaviors. Thus, we thought that the relationships between trait creativity and executive control brain networks might be modulated by self-esteem.

Identification of genes and pathways in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by bioinformatics analysis.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a metastatic malignant tumor originating from nasopharyngeal epithelium. Lacking or nonspecific symptoms of patients with early stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma have significantly reduced the accuracy of diagnosing and predicting nasopharyngeal carcinoma development. This study aimed to identify gene signatures of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and uncover potential mechanisms.

[Clinical analysis of short-term efficacy in senile sudden deafness].

Objective: To analysis the short-term medicinal treating effects in senile sudden deafness.

Method: According the age. The sudden deafness patients were divided into to groups, older age-group (age > or = 60, a total of 70 cases), control group (age < 60, a total of 70 cases), period of treatment was 7 days, the result of pure tone test were reviewed, compared the improvement before and after treatment.

The effect of different negative emotional context on involuntary attention: an ERP study.

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to examine the different negative emotional contexts on involuntary attention, induced by a task-irrelevant sound, in an auditory-visual distraction paradigm. The emotional contexts comprised sad, fearful and neutral, and the irrelevant auditory stimuli consisted of repetitive standard sounds (80%) and environmental novel sounds (20%). The present results revealed that there were apparently different mismatch negativity (MMN) and Novelty-P3 components among these emotional contexts.

[Down-regulation of CD147 expression induces SiHa cell apoptosis through the Bcl-2 pathway].

Objective: To investigate the changes in SiHa cell apoptosis after inhibition of CD147 expression.

Methods: RNA interference (RNAi) technique was used to down-regulate CD147 expression in SiHa cells, and RT-PCR and Western blotting were used to detect expression of CD147, Bcl-2, Bim and caspase-3; the percentage of cell apoptosis were detected by flow cytometry.

Results: SiRNA sequence 1, 2 inhibited CD147 expression in SiHa cells effectively (P<0.

Spatiotemporal cortical activation underlying self-referencial processing evoked by self-hand.

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded to explore the electrophysiological correlates of self-referencial processing when subjects were asked to judge whether the stimuli (their hands) were their own or not. ERP results showed that: first, own hand elicited a greater positive component (P350-500) than did other hand in the time window of 350-500 ms, and the generator of P350-500 was localized in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), which might be related to retrieval and identification of self-referencial information due to their sensitivity to self-hand. Second, own hand elicited a more positive component (LPC) than did other hand in the later time window.

The electrophysiological effect of working memory load on involuntary attention in an auditory-visual distraction paradigm: an ERP study.

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to examine the electrophysiological effect of working memory (WM) load on involuntary attention caused by a task-irrelevant sound in an auditory-visual distraction paradigm. The different WM loads were manipulated by requiring subjects to remember the order of either three digits (low-load condition) or seven digits (high-load condition), and the irrelevant auditory stimuli consisted of repetitive standard sounds (80%) and environmental novel sounds (20%). We found that the difference waves (novel-minus-standard) showed significant MMN and Novelty-P3 components in the two WM load conditions.