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Visuocortical tuning to a threat-related feature persists after extinction and consolidation of conditioned fear

Neurons in the visual cortex sharpen their orientation tuning as humans learn aversive contingencies. A stimulus orientation (CS+) that reliably predicts an aversive noise (unconditioned stimulus: US) is selectively enhanced in lower-tier visual cortex, while similar unpaired orientations (CS−) are...

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Autores principales: Antov, Martin I., Plog, Elena, Bierwirth, Philipp, Keil, Andreas, Stockhorst, Ursula
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32127551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60597-z