Fear potentiated startle at short intervals following conditioned stimulus onset during delay but not trace conditioning

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 880-888

  Åsli, Ole ^a   Kulvedrøsten, Silje ^a   Solbakken, Line E ^a   Flaten, Magne Arve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Emotion; Learning memory; Normal volunteers; Startle blink; Unconscious processes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AWARENESS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; DELAY CONDITIONING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUSNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRACE CONDITIONING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NOISE; STARTLE REACTION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66949150173     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00809.x     Document Type: Article

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