Neural pattern similarity predicts long-term fear memory

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Publication date 04-2013
Journal Nature Neuroscience
Volume | Issue number 16 | 4
Pages (from-to) 388-390
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract Although certain changes in the brain may reflect fear learning, there are no known markers that indicate whether an aversive experience will develop into fear memory. We examined the moment-to-moment dynamics of human fear learning by applying multi-voxel pattern analysis to single-trial blood oxygen level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging data. We found that the long-term behavioral expression of fear memory could be predicted from neural patterns at the time of learning.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3345
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