We employed a web-based version of a visual discrimination task before and after associative and fear learning. We could show that associative learning in general results in increased stimulus salience, which facilitates perceptual discrimination in order to prioritize attentional deployment.
We employed a web-based version of a visual discrimination task before and after associative and fear learning. We could show that associative learning in general results in increased stimulus salience, which facilitates perceptual discrimination in order to prioritize attentional deployment.
Measures of visuocortical activity during aversive generalization learning revealed sharpened representations of facial identity, reflecting inhibitory interactions between neuronal populations that represent facial features associated with threat versus safety.