Not what you expect: Experience but not expectancy predicts conditioned responses in human visual and supplementary cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2803-2809

  Moratti, Stephan ^a,b   Keil, Andreas ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectancy; Fear conditioning; Magnetoencephalography; Steady state visual evoked fields; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPECTANCY; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS; UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70450228565     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp052     Document Type: Article

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