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SUBMITTER: Dunsmoor JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5015802 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dunsmoor Joseph E JE Kubota Jennifer T JT Li Jian J Coelho Cesar A O CA Phelps Elizabeth A EA
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20160422 9
Flexibility of associative learning can be revealed by establishing and then reversing cue-outcome discriminations. Here, we used functional MRI to examine whether neurobehavioral correlates of reversal-learning are impaired in White and Asian volunteers when initial learning involves fear-conditioning to a racial out-group. For one group, the picture of a Black male was initially paired with shock (threat) and a White male was unpaired (safe). For another group, the White male was a threat and ...[more]