Individual Differences in Anticipatory Somatosensory Cortex Activity for Shock is Positively Related with Trait Anxiety and Multisensory Integration

Anxiety is associated with an exaggerated expectancy of harm, including overestimation of how likely a conditioned stimulus (CS+) predicts a harmful unconditioned stimulus (US). In the current study we tested whether anxiety-associated expectancy of harm increases primary sensory cortex (S1) activit...

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Main Authors: Steven G. Greening, Tae-Ho Lee, Mara Mather
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-01-01
Series:Brain Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/6/1/2