Heterogeneity in Threat Extinction Learning: Substantive and Methodological Considerations for Identifying Individual Difference in Response to Stress

Pavlovian threat (fear) conditioning (PTC) is an experimental paradigm that couples innate aversive stimuli with neutral cues to elicit learned defensive behavior in response to the neutral cue. PTC is commonly used as a translational model to study neurobiological and behavioral aspects of fear and...

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Main Authors: Isaac Robert Galatzer-Levy, George A Bonanno, David E Bush, Joe eLeDoux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00055/full