Fear acquisition requires awareness in trace but not delay conditioning

Psychophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 170-180

  Weike, Almut I ^a   Schupp, Harald T ^b   Hamm, Alfons O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Awareness; Delay conditioning; Emotional learning; Fear; Startle; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BLINKING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSHOCK; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33846204750     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2006.00469.x     Document Type: Article

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