Contingency awareness and fear inhibition in a human fear-potentiated startle paradigm

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 995-1004

  Jovanovic, Tanja ^a,f   Norrholm, Seth D ^a   Keyes, Megan ^b   Fiallos, Ana ^c   Jovanovic, Sasa ^d   Myers, Karyn M ^e   Davis, Michael ^a   Duncan, Erica J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d OKI Telecom   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency awareness; Discrimination learning; Fear inhibition; Human startle response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AWARENESS; CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION; CONTINGENCY AWARENESS; FEAR; FEAR INHIBITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33750065132     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.5.995     Document Type: Article

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