Modality of fear cues affects acoustic startle potentiation but not heart-rate response in patients with dental phobia

Modality of fear cues affects acoustic startle potentiation but not heart-rate response in patients with dental phobia

The acoustic startle response (SR) has consistently been shown to be enhanced by fear-arousing cross-modal background stimuli in phobics. Intra-modal fear-potentiation of acoustic SR was rarely investigated and generated inconsistent results. The present study compared the acoustic SR to phobia-rela...

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Main Authors: Andre eWannemueller, Gudrun eSartory, Karin eElsesser, Thomas eLohrmann, Hans Peter Joehren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Sensory Gating
Sensorimotor gating
dental phobia
Acoustic Startle Response
acoustic fear cues
phobic heart rate response
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00170/full

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