Threat conditioning is a laboratory model of associative learning across species that is often
used in research on the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. At least 10 different …

Whether fear conditioning can take place without contingency awareness is a topic of
continuing debate and conflicting findings have been reported in the literature. This …

There is conflicting evidence as to whether awareness is required for conditioning of the skin
conductance response (SCR). Recently, Schultz and Helmstetter reported SCR conditioning …

Recent research findings indicate that human fear conditioning is affected by instructions,
particularly those concerning the contingency between the conditioned stimulus (CS) and …

In the context of fear conditioning, different psychophysiological measures have been
related to different learning processes. Specifically, skin conductance responses (SCRs) …

The process of learning allows organisms to develop predictions about outcomes in the
environment, and learning is sensitive to both simple associations and higher order …

Humans are sensitive to temporal redundancies in their environment. When the identity of a
target stimulus is correlated with the duration of the preceding interval, performance is better …

A hallmark symptom of fear and anxiety disorder is generalization of fear to essentially
innocuous stimuli and situations. Such generalization can occur through both perceptual …

The role of contingency awareness in simple associative learning experiments with human
participants is currently debated. Since prior work suggests that eye movements can index …

The fingers and feet have long been accepted as optimal anatomical recording sites for
electrodermal activity. The available literature suggests that the feet are more responsive …