Social conditioning and extinction paradigm: A translational study in virtual reality

Social conditioning and extinction paradigm: A translational study in virtual reality

In human beings, experiments investigating fear conditioning with social stimuli are rare. The current study aims at translating an animal model for social fear conditioning (SFC) to a human sample using an operant SFC paradigm in virtual reality (VR). Forty participants actively (using a joystick)...

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Main Authors: Youssef eShiban, Jonas eReichenberger, Inga D Neumann, Andreas eMühlberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Heart Rate
virtual reality
social anxiety
fear-potentiated startle
social fear conditioning
operant conditioning paradigm
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00400/full

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