Figure 1
From: Effects of Threat Conditioning on the Negative Valanced Systems and Cognitive Systems
Experimental timeline and threat conditioning. (A) Experimental design. Left panel. After arriving, the subjects were first assessed (BAI, STAI-T), completed the first part of the aversiveness rating task (stimuli representation) and then underwent threat conditioning or a control task (no-US). Right Panel. Five minutes (Short-term evaluation) or 48 hs (Long-term evaluation) later, the participants completed several tasks targeting the negative-valence (state anxiety, stimuli representation, negative valuation), positive-valence (positive valuation) and cognitive systems (attentional bias and semantic fluency). (B) Threat conditioning. Subjects in the TR groups successfully acquired the aversive memory while those in the control task (no-TR group) did not. (C) Mean SCR (μS) for CS+, CSa and CSn for TR and no-TR groups in the Short-term evaluation and the Long-term evaluation. Mean SCR (μS) ± SEM, *P < 0.05.
