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Fear Generalization and Anxiety: Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms by Dunsmoor, Joseph E, Paz, Rony

“…Abstract Fear can be an adaptive emotion that helps defend against potential danger. Classical conditioning models elegantly describe how animals learn which…”
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Rethinking Extinction by Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Niv, Yael, Daw, Nathaniel, Phelps, Elizabeth A.

“…Extinction serves as the leading theoretical framework and experimental model to describe how learned behaviors diminish through absence of anticipated…”
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Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research by Dymond, Simon, Dunsmoor, Joseph E, Vervliet, Bram, Roche, Bryan, Hermans, Dirk

“…Abstract Fear generalization, in which conditioned fear responses generalize or spread to related stimuli, is a defining feature of anxiety disorders. The…”
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Emotional learning selectively and retroactively strengthens memories for related events by Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Murty, Vishnu P., Davachi, Lila, Phelps, Elizabeth A.

“…Initially weak episodic memories in humans can be selectively enhanced and consolidated following later emotional learning involving conceptually related…”
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Behavioral and neural processes in counterconditioning: Past and future directions by Keller, Nicole E., Hennings, Augustin C., Dunsmoor, Joseph E.

“…Counterconditioning refers both to the technique and putative process by which behavior is modified through a new association with a stimulus of an opposite…”
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Insight problem solving ability predicts reduced susceptibility to fake news, bullshit, and overclaiming by Salvi, Carola, Barr, Nathaniel, Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Grafman, Jordan

“…The information humans are exposed to increased demands upon our information selection strategies, resulting in reduced fact-checking and critical-thinking…”
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Novelty-Facilitated Extinction: Providing a Novel Outcome in Place of an Expected Threat Diminishes Recovery of Defensive Responses by Dunsmoor, Joseph E, Campese, Vinn D, Ceceli, Ahmet O, LeDoux, Joseph E, Phelps, Elizabeth A

“…Abstract Background Experimental extinction serves as a model for psychiatric treatments based on associative learning. However, the effects of extinction are…”
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Role of conceptual knowledge in learning and retention of conditioned fear by Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Martin, Alex, LaBar, Kevin S.

“…► Humans rapidly form an association between object concepts and an electric shock. ► Concept-based fear learning was expressed through increases in expectancy…”
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Generalization of Conditioned Fear along a Dimension of Increasing Fear Intensity by Dunsmoor, Joseph E, Mitroff, Stephen R, LaBar, Kevin S

“…The present study investigated the extent to which fear generalization in humans is determined by the amount of fear intensity in nonconditioned stimuli…”
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Large-scale neural network computations and multivariate representations during approach-avoidance conflict decision-making by Moughrabi, Nicole, Botsford, Chloe, Gruichich, Tijana Sagorac, Azar, Ameera, Heilicher, Mickela, Hiser, Jaryd, Crombie, Kevin M., Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Stowe, Zach, Cisler, Josh M.

“…Many real-world situations require navigating decisions for both reward and threat. While there has been significant progress in understanding mechanisms of…”
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Test–retest reliability of human threat conditioning and generalization across a 1‐to‐2‐week interval by Cooper, Samuel E., Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Koval, Kathleen A., Pino, Emma R., Steinman, Shari A.

“…Given the increasing use of threat conditioning and generalization for clinical‐translational research efforts, establishing test–retest reliability of these…”
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Extinction in multiple virtual reality contexts diminishes fear reinstatement in humans by Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Ahs, Fredrik, Zielinski, David J., LaBar, Kevin S.

“…Although conditioned fear can be effectively extinguished by unreinforced exposure to a threat cue, fear responses tend to return when the cue is encountered…”
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Context conditioning in humans using commercially available immersive Virtual Reality by Kroes, Marijn C. W., Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Mackey, Wayne E., McClay, Mason, Phelps, Elizabeth A.

“…Despite a wealth of knowledge on how humans and nonhuman animals learn to associate meaningful events with cues in the environment, far less is known about how…”
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The Effect of Dopaminergic Replacement Therapy on Creative Thinking and Insight Problem-Solving in Parkinson's Disease Patients by Salvi, Carola, Leiker, Emily K, Baricca, Beatrix, Molinari, Maria A, Eleopra, Roberto, Nichelli, Paolo F, Grafman, Jordan, Dunsmoor, Joseph E

“…Parkinson's disease (PD) patients receiving dopaminergic treatment may experience bursts of creativity. Although this phenomenon is sometimes recognized among…”
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A Preliminary Test of Novelty-Facilitated Extinction in Individuals With Pathological Anxiety by Steinman, Shari A, Dunsmoor, Joseph E, Gazman, Zhamilya, Stovezky, Yael, Pascucci, Olivia, Pomerenke, Justin, Phelps, Elizabeth A, Fyer, Abby, Simpson, H Blair

“…Studies with rodents and healthy humans suggest that replacing the expected threat with a novel outcome improves extinction and reduces the return of…”
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States of epistemic curiosity interfere with memory for incidental scholastic facts by Keller, Nicole E., Salvi, Carola, Leiker, Emily K., Gruber, Matthias J., Dunsmoor, Joseph E.

“…Curiosity can be a powerful motivator to learn and retain new information. Evidence shows that high states of curiosity elicited by a specific source (i.e., a…”
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Fear conditioning and extinction in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review by Cooper, Samuel E., Dunsmoor, Joseph E.

“…•Classical conditioning models of OCD inform gold-standard exposure interventions.•First systematic review of classical fear conditioning studies in…”
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Categories, concepts, and conditioning: how humans generalize fear by Dunsmoor, Joseph E, Murphy, Gregory L

“…Highlights • Pavlovian conditioning is an important model for understanding fear and anxiety in humans. • We review recent findings that cannot be accommodated…”
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Memory consolidation as an adaptive process by Cowan, Emily T., Schapiro, Anna C., Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Murty, Vishnu P.

“…We rely on our long-term memories to guide future behaviors, making it adaptive to prioritize the retention of goal-relevant, salient information in memory. In…”
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Tag and capture: how salient experiences target and rescue nearby events in memory by Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Murty, Vishnu P., Clewett, David, Phelps, Elizabeth A., Davachi, Lila

“…The long-term fate of a memory is not exclusively determined by the events occurring at the moment of encoding. Research at the cellular, circuit, and…”
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