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The article is focused on current and often repeated topic linking psychology and natural sciences. The position of psychology in the context of interdisciplinary integration characterized as a science, which is at the interface of philosophy, biology and medical sciences. This fact is widely accepted already several decades ago. In fact, the connection to biology, neurophysiology, and medical sciences, often is absent in our country. In this paper we describe a brief overview of several experimental findings, which were made at the Department of Psychology, Comenius University, in the psychophysiology laboratory with support for multiple grant projects. The experiments are focused on the impact of stress conditions in the cognitive performance and subsequent psychophysiological changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trait anxiety is associated with typical processing of emotional stimuli, and with individual differences in cognition. Cognitive function which efficiency trait anxiety directly affect, is the ability to deliberately inhibit dominant, and automatic responses, or distractors. The aim of this study was to examine, how, and in what situation trait anxiety affects this cognitive function. Our results indicated, that trait anxiety impairs inhibition only in situation, when the task required suppression of reflexive responses (anti-saccade response). High-anxious participants took significantly longer than the low-anxious ones to make the first correct antisaccade on the antisaccade task. High-anxious participants did not exhibit switching benefit, whereas low-anxious did. There was no main effect of anxiety on antisaccade error rate. We used the antisaccade task, saccade-antisaccade task, and Wisconsin card sorting test. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Insight refers to a change of mental seizure in non-routine problem situations. We assume that the fallacy of solving is associated with improper mental representation organized by prevailing cognitive structures. Within this notion, the ability of insight could result from an inhibition of irrelevant cognitive structures as reproductive thinking system components. This assumption was tested in our study. The construct of insight was operationalized by five visual insight problems, one of which has experimental design. The controlled variables were: general intelligence factor, specific visual-constructive factor, need for cognition and the development in specific fields of interest. The results convergently support the hypothesis of cognitive structure (perceptual and conceptual) influence on insight fallacy by means of the organization of problem mental representation. These findings bring further insight into the field of creative cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]