Human fear conditioning and extinction: Timing is everything...or is it?

Biological Psychology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-68

  Prenoveau, Jason M ^a   Craske, Michelle G ^b   Liao, Betty ^b   Ornitz, Edward M ^c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Fear conditioning; Psychophysiology; Stimulus duration; Temporal conditioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEAR CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; SELF REPORT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF REPORT; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84871715573     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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