Anxious individuals have difficulty learning the causal statistics of aversive environments

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 590-596

  Browning, Michael ^a   Behrens, Timothy E ^a   Jocham, Gerhard ^a,b   O'Reilly, Jill X ^a   Bishop, Sonia J ^a,c  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE LEARNING; BAYESIAN LEARNING; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MYDRIASIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BAYES THEOREM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUPIL; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BAYES THEOREM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PERSONALITY; PUPIL; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925784161     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3961     Document Type: Article

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