Acquired fears reflected in cortical sensory processing: a review of electrophysiological studies of human classical conditioning

V Miskovic, A Keil - Psychophysiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The capacity to associate neutral stimuli with affective value is an important survival strategy
that can be accomplished by cell assemblies obeying Hebbian learning principles. In the …

The scent of attraction and the smell of success: crossmodal influences on person perception

C Spence - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021 - Springer
In recent decades, there has been an explosion of research into the crossmodal influence of
olfactory cues on multisensory person perception. Numerous peer-reviewed studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Learning dynamics of electrophysiological brain signals during human fear conditioning

MFJ Sperl, A Wroblewski, M Mueller, B Straube… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrophysiological studies in rodents allow recording neural activity during threats with
high temporal and spatial precision. Although fMRI has helped translate insights about the …

[HTML][HTML] Contextual information resolves uncertainty about ambiguous facial emotions: Behavioral and magnetoencephalographic correlates

F Bublatzky, F Kavcıoğlu, P Guerra, S Doll… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Environmental conditions bias our perception of other peoples' facial emotions. This
becomes quite relevant in potentially threatening situations, when a fellow's facial …

Inhibitory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates early affective processing

P Zwanzger, C Steinberg, MA Rehbein… - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) has often been suggested as a key modulator of
emotional stimulus appraisal and regulation. Therefore, in clinical trials, it is one of the most …

A pragmatic comparison of noise burst and electric shock unconditioned stimuli for fear conditioning research with many trials

MFJ Sperl, C Panitz, C Hermann… - Psychophysiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Several methods that are promising for studying the neurophysiology of fear conditioning
(eg, EEG, MEG) require a high number of trials to achieve an adequate signal‐to‐noise …

Modulating emotion perception: opposing effects of inhibitory and excitatory prefrontal cortex stimulation

S Notzon, C Steinberg, P Zwanzger… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Excitatory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the left
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration …

[HTML][HTML] Smell what you hardly see: Odors assist visual categorization in the human brain

D Rekow, JY Baudouin, K Durand, A Leleu - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Visual categorization is the brain ability to rapidly and automatically respond to a certain
category of inputs. Whether category-selective neural responses are purely visual or can be …

Right medial temporal lobe structures particularly impact early stages of affective picture processing

M Mielke, LM Reisch, A Mehlmann… - Human Brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Human vision prioritizes emotional stimuli. This is reflected in stronger electrocortical
activation in response to emotional than neutral stimuli, measurable on the surface of the …

Noninvasive stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex enhances pleasant scene processing

M Junghofer, C Winker, MA Rehbein… - Cerebral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Depressive patients typically show biased attention towards unpleasant and away from
pleasant emotional material. Imaging studies suggest that dysfunctions in a distributed …