Visuocortical tuning to a threat-related feature persists after extinction and consolidation of conditioned fear - Antov MI, Plog E, Bierwirth P, Keil A, Stockhorst U.

Neurons in the visual cortex sharpen their orientation tuning as humans learn aversive contingencies. A stimulus orientation (CS+) that reliably predicts an aversive noise (unconditioned stimulus: US) is selectively enhanced in lower-tier visual cortex, wh...
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