Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping

K Roelofs, P Dayan - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Animals have sophisticated mechanisms for coping with danger. Freezing is a unique state
that, upon threat detection, allows evidence to be gathered, response possibilities to be …

[HTML][HTML] The functional role of cardiac activity in perception and action

LI Skora, JJA Livermore, K Roelofs - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract SKORA, LI, JJA LIVERMORE and K. Roelofs. The functional role of cardiac activity
in perception and action. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV X (X) XXX-XXX, 2022. Patterns of …

Consciousness matters: phenomenal experience has functional value

A Cleeremans, C Tallon-Baudry - Neuroscience of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'Why would we do anything at all if the doing was not doing something to us?'In
other words: What is consciousness good for? Here, reversing classical views, according to …

Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum

R Abend - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Threat-anticipatory defensive responses have evolved to promote survival in a dynamic
world. While inherently adaptive, aberrant expression of defensive responses to potential …

Quantifying aberrant approach-avoidance conflict in psychopathology: A review of computational approaches

AM Letkiewicz, HC Kottler, SA Shankman… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Making effective decisions during approach-avoidance conflict is critical in daily life.
Aberrant decision-making during approach-avoidance conflict is evident in a range of …

Acute threat enhances perceptual sensitivity without affecting the decision criterion

LD de Voogd, E Hagenberg, YJ Zhou, FP de Lange… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Threatening situations ask for rapid and accurate perceptual decisions to optimize coping.
Theoretical models have stated that psychophysiological states, such as bradycardia during …

[HTML][HTML] Subcortical contributions to salience network functioning during negative emotional processing

S Ince, T Steward, BJ Harrison, AJ Jamieson… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Core regions of the salience network (SN), including the anterior insula (aINS) and dorsal
anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), coordinate rapid adaptive changes in attentional and …

The neurocomputational link between defensive cardiac states and approach-avoidance arbitration under threat

FH Klaassen, LD de Voogd, AM Hulsman… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Avoidance, a hallmark of anxiety-related psychopathology, often comes at a cost; avoiding
threat may forgo the possibility of a reward. Theories predict that optimal approach …

To escape or to pursue: opposite decision making concerning a single moving object is influenced by starvation and sex

CA Salido, BJ Gancedo… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Decision-making processes in the context of prey–predator interactions are studied from the
side of the prey or the predator. Thus, prey capture and escape behaviours are researched …

Early threat perception is independent of later cognitive and behavioral control. A virtual reality-EEG-ECG study

J Lu, SK Kemmerer, L Riecke, B de Gelder - Cerebral Cortex, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Research on social threat has shown influences of various factors, such as agent
characteristics, proximity, and social interaction on social threat perception. An important, yet …