Associative learning versus fear habituation as predictors of long-term extinction retention

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 687-698

  Brown, Lily A ^a   LeBeau, Richard T ^a,b   Chat, Ka Yi ^c   Craske, Michelle G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b West Los Angeles Medical Center   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; Expectation violation; fear conditioning; fear extinction; inhibitory learning

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPECTANCY; EXPECTATION; EYELID REFLEX; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; OUTCOME VARIABLE; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; RETENTION; SHOCK; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; CONDITIONED REFLEX; STARTLE REFLEX; UNCERTAINTY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; REFLEX, STARTLE; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961393072     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1158695     Document Type: Article

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