Questions tagged [behavioural-neuroscience]
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Contextual freezing decline after exposure to CS (Fear Conditioning)
I am trying to find the literature or a phenomenon name to explain the following condition,
Animals are trained with cued fear conditioning (Context A), then at testing, they have two consecutive ...
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Difference between conditioned freezing, shock sensitization to startle and conditioned fear potentiation to startle?
I am reading paper-listed below-that talks about three terms,
Conditioned freezing;
Shock sensitization to startle;
Conditioned fear potentiation to startle.
I understand that conditioned freezing ...
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Is it possible to induce eye blinking?
Long time screen users like software developers sometimes use computers so intensely that they do not blink enough with their eyes. This leads to dry eyes.
Unfortunately, people typically don't ...
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Why humans like to rank things, make lists etc.?
I was wondering if anyone can provide some scientific explanation on why humans seem to like organising (cultural) items in arrangements such as lists, rankings, best-ofs etc. Some reference to ...
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Biologically plausible models for causal inference in the human brain
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In ‘Is coding a relevant metaphor for the brain?’(2018) Romain Brette argues that the causal structure of neural codes (linear, atemporal) is incongruent with the causal structure of
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