Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "fear"

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    • Amygdala Response to Facial Expressions Reflects Emotional Learning 

      Hooker, Christine; Germine, Laura; Knight, Robert T.; D'Esposito, Mark (Society for Neuroscience, 2006)
      The functional role of the human amygdala in the evaluation of emotional facial expressions is unclear. Previous animal and human research shows that the amygdala participates in processing positive and negative reinforcement ...

    • A parametric study of fear generalization to faces and non-face objects: relationship to discrimination thresholds 

      Holt, Daphne J.; Boeke, Emily A.; Wolthusen, Rick P. F.; Nasr, Shahin; Milad, Mohammed R.; Tootell, Roger B. H. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)
      Fear generalization is the production of fear responses to a stimulus that is similar—but not identical—to a threatening stimulus. Although prior studies have found that fear generalization magnitudes are qualitatively ...

    • A Phenotype of Early Infancy Predicts Reactivity of the Amygdala in Male Adults 

      Schwartz, C. E.; Kunwar, P. S.; Greve, Douglas N.; Kagan, Jerome; Snidman, Nancy Claire; Bloch, R. B. (Nature Publishing Group, 2011)
      One of the central questions that has occupied those disciplines concerned with human development is the nature of continuities and discontinuities from birth to maturity. The amygdala plays a central role in the processing ...