[HTML][HTML] Learning dynamics of electrophysiological brain signals during human fear conditioning

MFJ Sperl, A Wroblewski, M Mueller, B Straube… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrophysiological studies in rodents allow recording neural activity during threats with
high temporal and spatial precision. Although fMRI has helped translate insights about the …

Investigating the neural mechanisms of aware and unaware fear memory with fMRI

DC Knight, KH Wood - JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), 2011 - jove.com
Pavlovian fear conditioning is often used in combination with functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) in humans to investigate the neural substrates of associative learning 1-5. In …

Neuronal activity in sensory cortex predicts the specificity of learning in mice

KC Wood, CF Angeloni, K Oxman, C Clopath… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Learning to avoid dangerous signals while preserving normal responses to safe stimuli is
essential for everyday behavior and survival. Following identical experiences, subjects …

Fear extinction recall modulates human frontomedial theta and amygdala activity

MFJ Sperl, C Panitz, IM Rosso, DG Dillon… - Cerebral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG)
studies, as well as animal studies, indicate that the amygdala and frontomedial brain regions …

Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity

RP Alvarez, G Chen, J Bodurka, R Kaplan, C Grillon - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Aversive events are typically more debilitating when they occur unpredictably than
predictably. Studies in humans and animals indicate that predictable and unpredictable …

One-year-old fear memories rapidly activate human fusiform gyrus

EM Mueller, DA Pizzagalli - Social Cognitive and Affective …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Fast threat detection is crucial for survival. In line with such evolutionary pressure, threat-
signaling fear-conditioned faces have been found to rapidly (< 80 ms) activate visual brain …

Contextual fear conditioning in humans: cortical-hippocampal and amygdala contributions

RP Alvarez, A Biggs, G Chen, DS Pine… - Journal of …, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
Functional imaging studies of cued fear conditioning in humans have mostly confirmed
findings in animals, but it is unclear whether the brain mechanisms that underlie contextual …

Unconditioned responses and functional fear networks in human classical conditioning

C Linnman, A Rougemont-Bücking, JC Beucke… - Behavioural brain …, 2011 - Elsevier
Human imaging studies examining fear conditioning have mainly focused on the neural
responses to conditioned cues. In contrast, the neural basis of the unconditioned response …

From fear to safety and back: reversal of fear in the human brain

D Schiller, I Levy, Y Niv, JE LeDoux… - Journal of …, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
Fear learning is a rapid and persistent process that promotes defense against threats and
reduces the need to relearn about danger. However, it is also important to flexibly readjust …

Robust BOLD responses to faces but not to conditioned threat: challenging the amygdala's reputation in human fear and extinction learning

RM Visser, J Bathelt, HS Scholte… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Most of our knowledge about human emotional memory comes from animal research. Based
on this work, the amygdala is often labeled the brain's “fear center”, but it is unclear to what …