Fear can be an adaptive emotion that helps defend against potential danger. Classical
conditioning models elegantly describe how animals learn which stimuli in the environment …

It is a defining feature of anxiety disorders that fear is elicited by a circumscribed class of
stimuli rather than by only one specific exemplar of that class. Therefore, fear generalization …

Organisms tend to respond similarly to stimuli that are perceptually close to an event that
predicts adversity, a phenomenon known as fear generalization. Greater dissimilarity yields …

Attending to stimuli that share perceptual similarity to learned threats is an adaptive strategy.
However, prolonged threat generalization to cues signalling safety is considered a core …

Fear generalization to stimuli resembling a conditioned danger-cue (CS+) is a fundamental
dynamic of classical fear-conditioning. Despite the ubiquity of fear generalization in human …

The current experiment investigated whether overgeneralization of fear could be due to an
inability to perceptually discriminate the initial fear-evoking stimulus from similar stimuli, as …

For almost a century, Pavlovian conditioning is the imperative experimental paradigm to
investigate the development and generalization of fear. However, despite the rich research …

The ability to generalize from and distinguish between aversive memories and novel
experiences is critical to survival. Previous research has revealed mechanisms underlying …

Computational methods are increasingly being applied to the study of psychiatric disorders.
Often, this involves fitting models to the behavior of individuals with subclinical character …

Downregulating emotional overreactions toward threats is fundamental for developing
treatments for anxiety and post-traumatic disorders. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is critical for …