Contingency awareness shapes neural responses in fear conditioning.

Yuri G Pavlov, Nick S Menger, Andreas Keil, Boris Kotchoubey

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Article in Neuroscience of consciousness, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yuri G PavlovInstitute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Silcherstr. 5, Tübingen 72076, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3896-5145

Nick S MengerInstitute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Silcherstr. 5, Tübingen 72076, Germany.

Andreas KeilDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, 945 Center Dr, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States.

Boris KotchoubeyInstitute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Silcherstr. 5, Tübingen 72076, Germany.

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Abstract

Contingency awareness refers to an observer's ability to identify the association between a conditioned and an unconditioned stimulus (US). A widely held belief in human fear conditioning is that this form of associative learning may occur independently of contingency awareness. To test this hypothesis, in this preregistered study (https://osf.io/vywq7), we recorded electroencephalography during a task, where participants were presented with compounds of a word (drawn from two semantic categories) and tactile stimulation (vibration), followed by either a neutral sound (US-) or a loud noise (US+). Based on interviews, participants were divided into an aware (

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PMID41561364

DOI10.1093/nc/niaf065

PMCPMC12814967

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