ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2023
Consensus design of a calibration experiment for human fear conditioning.
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- Distinct Visual Pathways of Threat Retrieval in Fear-Conditioned Faces.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Experiment-based calibration: Inference and decision-making.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Enhancing the Efficacy of Exposure Therapy: Translation of Pharmacological Augmentation of Fear Extinction.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2026Review
- Affective schemas: Acquisition, updating, and inference.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- A systematic review of spontaneous recovery in human fear conditioning.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Adaptive suppression of threat-history stimuli.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Measuring Human Pavlovian Reward Conditioning and Memory Retention After Consolidation.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Fear extinction retention in children, adolescents, and adults.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- An Honest Reckoning With the Amygdala and Mental Illness.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- Integrating threat conditioning and the hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology to advance the study of anxiety-related psychopathology.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Review
- Dimensionality and optimal combination of autonomic fear-conditioning measures in humans.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Semantic structures facilitate threat memory integration throughout the medial temporal lobe and medial prefrontal cortex.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Psychometrics in experimental psychology: A case for calibration.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Review
- The impact of extinction timing on pre-extinction arousal and subsequent return of fear.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Adaptive thresholding increases sensitivity to detect changes in the rate of skin conductance responses to psychologically arousing stimuli in both laboratory and ambulatory settings.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Exercise and Fear and Safety Learning.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2024Review
- Enhancing experimental design through Bayes factor design analysis: insights from multi-armed bandit tasks.Wellcome open research · 2024Article
- Experiment-based calibration in psychology: Optimal design considerations.Journal of mathematical psychology · 2023Article
- Context reexposure to bolster contextual dependency of emotional episodic memory.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Fear conditioning depends on the nature of the unconditional stimulus and may be related to hair levels of endocannabinoids.Psychophysiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Fear conditioning is a widely used laboratory model to investigate learning, memory, and psychopathology across species. The quantification of learning in this paradigm is heterogeneous in humans and psychometric properties of different quantification methods can be difficult to establish. To overcome this obstacle, calibration is a standard metrological procedure in which well-defined values of a latent variable are generated in an established experimental paradigm. These intended values then serve as validity criterion to rank methods. Here, we develop a calibration protocol for human fear conditioning. Based on a literature review, series of workshops, and survey of N = 96 experts, we propose a calibration experiment and settings for 25 design variables to calibrate the measurement of fear conditioning. Design variables were chosen to be as theory-free as possible and allow wide applicability in different experimental contexts. Besides establishing a specific calibration procedure, the general calibration process we outline may serve as a blueprint for calibration efforts in other subfields of behavioral neuroscience that need measurement refinement.
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