Startle potentiation: Shock sensitization, aversive learning, and affective picture modulation

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1069-1079

  Greenwald, Mark K ^a   Bradley, Margaret M ^b   Cuthbert, Bruce N ^b   Lang, Peter J ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STARTLE REFLEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031795691     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.5.1069     Document Type: Article

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