Discriminative Fear Learners are Resilient to Temporal Distortions during Threat Anticipation

Timing and Time Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 63-78

  Lake, Jessica I ^a,b   Meck, Warren H ^b   Labar, Kevin S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; Duration discrimination; emotion; fear conditioning; individual differences; timing and time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959122622     PISSN: 2213445X     EISSN: 22134468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22134468-00002063     Document Type: Article

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