Conditioning with masked stimuli affects the timecourse of skin conductance responses

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 478-489

  Balderston, Nicholas L ^a   Helmstetter, Fred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Backward masking; Fear conditioning; Humans; Skin conductance response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AWARENESS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955813107     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019927     Document Type: Article

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