Luminance, but not chromatic visual pathways, mediate amplification of conditioned danger signals in human visual cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3356-3362

  Keil, Andreas ^a   Miskovic, Vladimir ^a   Gray, Michael J ^a   Martinovic, Jasna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential fear conditioning; Sensory biases; Steady state potentials; Visual learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

DIFFERENTIAL FEAR CONDITIONING; SENSORY BIASES; STEADY-STATE POTENTIALS; VISUAL LEARNING;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887135773     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12316     Document Type: Article

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