Preferential Neuronal Responses to Snakes in the Monkey Medial Prefrontal Cortex Support an Evolutionary Origin for Ophidiophobia

Ophidiophobia (snake phobia) is one of the most common specific phobias. It has been proposed that specific phobia may have an evolutionary origin, and that attentional bias to specific items may promote the onset of phobia. Noninvasive imaging studies of patients with specific phobia reported that...

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Main Authors: Ha Trong Dinh, Hiroshi Nishimaru, Quan Van Le, Jumpei Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi Setogawa, Rafael S. Maior, Carlos Tomaz, Taketoshi Ono, Hisao Nishijo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.653250/full