Topic: skin conductance response

Research in humans has long recognized a modulating role for sex hormones on fear learning. There is still not quite a consensus on what specific effects different hormones have, or what experimental paradigm properly reflects key processes of fear-related learning in near-ecological situations. Our aim with this work was to precisely tackle the influence of sex hormones and the menstrual cycle in fear memory, combining for the first time methods such as vaginal cytology analysis, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), fear-potentiated startle (FPS) and skin conductance response (SCR

Foreign language acquisition is increasingly important in the global world, but language learning in adults is laborious, and therefore new efficient methods are needed for it. Several studies have shown that social interaction and embodiment in learning situations can facilitate foreign language learning. Still, the literature on adults is limited, and the underlying neural underpinnings are poorly understood. Our study examines whether phonetic learning with peers is more efficient than learning individually. Thirty-four native Finnish speakers were randomly assigned to two groups: a group l

The aim of this fMRI study was to assess the role of affect sharing (AS), an important aspect of empathy, in observational fear learning. N=37 students completed an observational Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm, in which they learned to fear a cue (assessed in a subsequent test stage) by watching videos of a demonstrator receiving shocks with that cue (learning stage). Participants watched the videos in a state of high or low AS, respectively, induced by hypnotic suggestions, using a within-subjects design. Unconditioned responses (UR) to the demonstrator’s pain during learning and condit