Threat impairs flexible use of a cognitive map

B Silston, KN Ochsner, M Aly - Motivation and Emotion, 2023 - Springer
Goal-directed behavior requires adaptive systems that respond to environmental demands.
In the absence of threat (or presence of reward), individuals can explore many behavioral …

[PDF][PDF] Interactive cognitive maps support flexible behavior under threat

T Wise, CJ Charpentier, P Dayan, D Mobbs - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
In social environments, survival can depend upon inferring and adapting to other agents'
goal-directed behavior. However, it remains unclear how humans achieve this, despite the …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial navigation under threat: aversive apprehensions improve route retracing in higher versus lower trait anxious individuals

F Bublatzky, P Allen, M Riemer - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Spatial navigation is a basic function for survival, and the ability to retrace a route has direct
relevance for avoiding dangerous places. This study investigates the effects of aversive …

The path more travelled: Time pressure increases reliance on familiar route-based strategies during navigation

TT Brunyé, MD Wood, LA Houck… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Navigating large-scale environments involves dynamic interactions between the physical
world and individuals' knowledge, goals, and strategies. Time pressure can result from self …

Thinking about threats: Memory and prospection in human threat management

A Bulley, JD Henry, T Suddendorf - Consciousness and Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Humans have evolved mechanisms for the detection and management of possible threats in
order to abate their negative consequences for fitness. Internally generated ('detached') …

Threat learning impairs subsequent memory recombination with past episodes

O de Vries, R Grasman, M Kindt, V van Ast - 2021 - osf.io
To successfully predict important events, the representations in memory on which we rely
need to be constantly updated and transformed to best reflect a complex and dynamic world …

Evidence for a minimal role of stimulus awareness in reversal of threat learning

P Homan, HL Lau, I Levy, CM Raio, DR Bach… - Learning & …, 2021 - learnmem.cshlp.org
In an ever-changing environment, survival depends on learning which stimuli represent
threat, and also on updating such associations when circumstances shift. It has been …

Linked networks for learning and expressing location-specific threat

B Suarez-Jimenez, JA Bisby… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Learning locations of danger within our environment is a vital adaptive ability whose neural
bases are only partially understood. We examined fMRI brain activity while participants …

[图书][B] The Trade-Off Between Fear and Reward: An Ethobehavioral Study of Avoidance

RSW Walker - 2021 - search.proquest.com
A hallmark feature of anxiety is maladaptive avoidance (Pittig, Treanor, LeBeau, & Craske,
2018) and women have higher rates of both anxiety and pathological avoidance than men …

Threatening stimuli have differential effects on movement preparation and execution—A study on snake fear

AN Zsidó, O Inhof, BL Kiss, C Bali… - People and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
How people experience nature influences their attitudes and actions towards it. Having had
a negative encounter with an animal may facilitate avoidance and freezing responses which …