Stimulus avoidance and perceptual adaptation: A vicious cycle paradigm?

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 199-211

  Lauterbach, Wolf ^a   Kozak, Michael J ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention; Avoidance; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PITCH; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0032171127     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7916(98)00015-9     Document Type: Article

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