Conditioned diminution of the unconditioned skin conductance response

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 626-631

  Knight, David C ^a   Lewis, Eleanor P ^a   Wood, Kimberly H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Fear; Memory; UCR; UCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN CONDUCTANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960956268     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024324     Document Type: Article

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