Adaptation in human visual cortex as a mechanism for rapid discrimination of aversive stimuli

NeuroImage

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 472-479

  Keil, Andreas ^a   Stolarova, Margarita ^b   Moratti, Stephan ^c   Ray, William J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Classical conditioning; Electroencephalography; Emotion; Large scale brain oscillations; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURVIVAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34248169201     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.048     Document Type: Article

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