ArticleCognition & emotion2018
Differential aversive learning enhances orientation discrimination.
Article in Cognition & emotion, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Quantifying population-level neural tuning functions using Ricker wavelets and the Bayesian bootstrap.Journal of neuroscience methods · 2025Article
- The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Direct perception of affective valence from vision.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Examining the impact of cue similarity and fear learning on perceptual tuning.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Gains and Losses Affect Learning Differentially at Low and High Attentional Load.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Associative learning shapes visual discrimination in a web-based classical conditioning task.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Human Sensory Cortex Contributes to the Long-Term Storage of Aversive Conditioning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- The role of imagery in threat-related perceptual decision making.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2020Article
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Abstract
A number of recent studies have documented rapid changes in behavioural sensory acuity induced by aversive learning in the olfactory and auditory modalities. The effect of aversive learning on the discrimination of low-level features in the visual system of humans remains unclear. Here, we used a psychophysical staircase procedure to estimate discrimination thresholds for oriented grating stimuli, before and after differential aversive learning. We discovered that when a target grating orientation was conditioned with an aversive loud noise, it subsequently led to an improvement of discrimination acuity in nearly all subjects. However, no such change was observed in a control group conditioned to an orientation shifted by ±90° from the target. Our findings cannot be explained by contextual learning or sensitisation factors. The results converge with those reported in the olfactory modality and provide further evidence that early sensory systems can be rapidly modified by recently experienced reinforcement histories.
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