@article{ref1,
title="Neural indices of orienting, discrimination, and conflict monitoring after contextual fear and safety learning",
journal="Cognitive, affective and behavioral neuroscience",
year="2020",
author="Taylor, Danielle L. and Grant, DeMond M. and Frosio, Kristen E. and Kraft, Jacob D. and Nagel, Kaitlyn M. and Deros, Danielle E. and White, Evan J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Investigations of fear conditioning have recently begun to evaluate contextual factors that affect attention-related processes. However, much of the extant literature does not evaluate how contextual fear learning influences neural indicators of attentional processes during goal-directed activity. The current study evaluated how early attention for task-relevant stimuli and conflict monitoring were affected when presented within task-irrelevant safety and threat contexts after fear learning. Participants (N = 72) completed a Flanker task with modified context before and after context-dependent fear learning. Flanker stimuli were presented in the same threat and safety contexts utilized in the fear learning task while EEG was collected. <br><br>RESULTS indicated increased early attention (N1) to flankers appearing in threat contexts and later increased neural indicators (P2) of attention to flankers appearing in safety contexts. <br><br>RESULTS of this study indicate that contextual fear learning modulates early attentional processes for task-relevant stimuli that appear in the context of safety and threat. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1530-7026",
doi="10.3758/s13415-020-00810-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00810-8"
}