Instructed extinction differentially affects the emotional and cognitive expression of associative fear memory

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1426-1435

  Sevenster, Dieuwke ^a   Beckers, Tom ^a,b   Kindt, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Electrodermal; EMG; Learning memory; Normal volunteers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866351407     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01450.x     Document Type: Article

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