fear conditioning
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffearandconditioning
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fear
noun[C or U]
uk/fɪər/us/fɪr/
an unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried by something dangerous, painful, or bad that is happening or ...
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conditioning
noun[U]
uk/kənˈdɪʃ.ən.ɪŋ/us/kənˈdɪʃ.ən.ɪŋ/
the process of training or influencing a person or animal mentally so that they do or expect a particular thing without thinking ...
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Differential contribution of amygdala and hippocampus to cued and contextualfearconditioning.
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Intracerebroventricular intereukin-1 receptor antagonist blocks the enhancement offearconditioning and interference with escape learning produced by inescabable shock.
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Fearconditioningis modulated by the amygdala complex of the limbic system.
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Impairedfearconditioningfollowing unilateral temporal lobectomy in humans.
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Consequently, relatively weaker right hemisphere activation would predispose children to poorfearconditioning, lack of conscience development, and antisocial behavior.
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The molecular processes underlyingfearconditioningis an area of active investigation.
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Humanfearconditioningis related to dopaminergic and serotonergic biological markers.
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Consolidation offearconditioningis thought to occur via long-term potentiation of synapses in the lateral amygdala.
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Involvement of subcortical and cortical afferents to the lateral nucleus of the amygdala infearconditioning measured with fearpotentiated startle in rats trained concurrently with auditory and visual conditioned stimuli.
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It has been proposed that active coping, both at the time of trauma and upon reexposure to trauma reminders, may shape the neural circuits that underliefearconditioning.
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Amygdala, hippocampus, and discriminativefearconditioningto context.
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Pharmacological and anatomical analysis offearconditioningusing the fear-potentiated startle paradigm.
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The dual-route architecture was initially developed to account forfearconditioningin both humans and animals and was based on findings that conditioning could take place through both routes separately.
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Convergent but temporally separated inputs to lateral amygdala neurons from the auditory thalamus and auditory cortex use different postsynaptic receptors: in vivo intracellular and extracellular recordings infearconditioningpathways.
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This chapter examines his ideas on this process, includingfearconditioningand rationalizing.
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Fearconditioningworks by pairing an initially neutral stimulus with an aversive stimulus, leading to long-lasting fear memories.
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Conversely, the midline nuclei may also play a role in retrieving consolidatedfearconditioningthrough the projection to the central nucleus of the amygdala.
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Similar tofearconditioning, extinction can be broken down into several categories, such as acquisition (training), consolidation, and retrieval of extinction memory.
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This hypothesis is especially appealing as an explanation for how simple associative learning, such as that taking place infearconditioning, might occur.
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