Neural correlates of unconditioned response diminution during Pavlovian conditioning

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 811-817

  Dunsmoor, Joseph E ^a   Bandettini, Peter A ^a   Knight, David C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioning; Fear; fMRI; Learning; UCR diminution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AVERSION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 40649102903     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.11.042     Document Type: Article

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