Brain systems underlying encounter expectancy bias in spider phobia

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 335-348

  Aue, Tatjana ^a   Hoeppli, Marie Eve ^b   Piguet, Camille ^a,c   Hofstetter, Christoph ^a   Rieger, Sebastian W ^a   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Encounter expectancy bias; Fear; fMRI; Risk estimation; Spider phobia

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHOBIA; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SPIDER; STATISTICAL BIAS; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPIDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939978556     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-015-0339-6     Document Type: Article

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