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SUBMITTER: Amadi U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5308550 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Amadi Ugwechi U Lim Seh Hong SH Liu Elizabeth E Baratta Michael V MV Goosens Ki A KA
Psychological science 20161219 2
Despite the ubiquitous use of Pavlovian fear conditioning as a model for fear learning, the highly predictable conditions used in the laboratory do not resemble real-world conditions, in which dangerous situations can lead to unpleasant outcomes in unpredictable ways. In the current experiments, we varied the timing of aversive events after predictive cues in rodents and discovered that temporal ambiguity of aversive events greatly enhances fear. During fear conditioning with unpredictably timed ...[more]