Acquired fears reflected in cortical sensory processing: a review of electrophysiological studies of human classical conditioning

V Miskovic, A Keil - Psychophysiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The capacity to associate neutral stimuli with affective value is an important survival strategy
that can be accomplished by cell assemblies obeying Hebbian learning principles. In the …

Steady‐state visual evoked potentials as a research tool in social affective neuroscience

MJ Wieser, V Miskovic, A Keil - Psychophysiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Like many other primates, humans place a high premium on social information transmission
and processing. One important aspect of this information concerns the emotional state of …

Brainstorm: A user‐friendly application for MEG/EEG analysis

F Tadel, S Baillet, JC Mosher… - Computational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Brainstorm is a collaborative open‐source application dedicated to
magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) data visualization and …

The body and the brain: Measuring skin conductance responses to understand the emotional experience

GI Christopoulos, MA Uy… - Organizational Research …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we introduce the method of measuring skin conductance responses (SCR)
reflecting peripheral (bodily) signals associated with emotions, decisions, and eventually …

Social aversive generalization learning sharpens the tuning of visuocortical neurons to facial identity cues

Y Stegmann, L Ahrens, P Pauli, A Keil, MJ Wieser - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Defensive system activation promotes heightened perception of threat signals, and
excessive attention to threat signals has been discussed as a contributory factor in the …

[HTML][HTML] Attention mechanisms during predictable and unpredictable threat—A steady-state visual evoked potential approach

MJ Wieser, P Reicherts, G Juravle, A von Leupoldt - NeuroImage, 2016 - Elsevier
Fear is elicited by imminent threat and leads to phasic fear responses with selective
attention, whereas anxiety is characterized by a sustained state of heightened vigilance due …

Rapid and highly resolving associative affective learning: Convergent electro-and magnetoencephalographic evidence from vision and audition

C Steinberg, AK Bröckelmann, M Rehbein, C Dobel… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Various pathway models for emotional processing suggest early prefrontal contributions to
affective stimulus evaluation. Yet, electrophysiological evidence for such rapid modulations …

The effect of trait anxiety on attentional mechanisms in combined context and cue conditioning and extinction learning

Y Stegmann, P Reicherts, M Andreatta, P Pauli… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Sensory processing and attention allocation are shaped by threat, but the role of trait-anxiety
in sensory processing as a function of threat predictability remains incompletely understood …

Multimodal imaging evidence for a frontoparietal modulation of visual cortex during the selective processing of conditioned threat

NM Petro, LF Gruss, S Yin, H Huang… - Journal of cognitive …, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Emotionally salient cues are detected more readily, remembered better, and evoke greater
visual cortical responses compared with neutral stimuli. The current study used concurrent …

Neuroscientific evidence for pain being a classically conditioned response to trauma-and pain-related cues in humans

LK Franke, SF Miedl, SK Danböck, M Grill… - Pain, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Psychological trauma is typically accompanied by physical pain, and posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) often cooccurs with chronic pain. Clinical reports suggest that pain after …