Affective blindsight: Intact fear conditioning to a visual cue in a cortically blind patient

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 267-275

  Hamm, Alfons O ^a   Weike, Almut I ^a   Schupp, Harald T ^a   Treig, Thomas ^c   Dressel, Alexander ^b   Kessler, Christof ^b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c Neurological Rehabilitation Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Blindsight; Conditioning; Fear; Startle

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AFFECTIVE BLINDSIGHT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEAR; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBJECT RELATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGED; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEAR; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STARTLE REACTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037314877     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg037     Document Type: Article

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