In Dubio Pro Defensio: Initial Activation of Conditioned Fear Is Not Cue Specific

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 685-696

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

aversive learning; differential trace conditioning; fear potentiated startle; temporal specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44649201024     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.3.685     Document Type: Article

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