Classically conditioned fear responses are preserved following unilateral temporal lobectomy in humans when concurrent US-expectancy ratings are used

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2496-2503

  Coppens, Evelien ^a   Spruyt, Adriaan ^b   Vandenbulcke, Mathieu ^a   Van Paesschen, Wim ^a   Vansteenwegen, Debora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amygdala; CS US awareness; Explicit learning; Skin conductance responses; US expectancy ratings

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EXPECTANCY; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHOBIA; PREDICTION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOSURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 67650086539     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.04.021     Document Type: Article

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