Is Acquired Disgust More Difficult to Extinguish Than Acquired Fear? an Event-Related Potential Study

This study used the classical conditioned acquisition and extinction paradigm to compare which of the two emotions, acquired disgust and acquired fear, was more difficult to extinguish, based on behavioral assessments and the event-related potential (ERP) technique. Behavioral assessments revealed t...

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Autores principales: Qing Zeng, Lishan Lv, Xifu Zheng
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1152cfffa09747bbab74ef2510768a7c2021-11-19T04:28:22ZIs Acquired Disgust More Difficult to Extinguish Than Acquired Fear? an Event-Related Potential Study1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.687779https://doaj.org/article/1152cfffa09747bbab74ef2510768a7c2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.687779/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078This study used the classical conditioned acquisition and extinction paradigm to compare which of the two emotions, acquired disgust and acquired fear, was more difficult to extinguish, based on behavioral assessments and the event-related potential (ERP) technique. Behavioral assessments revealed that, following successful conditioned extinction, acquired disgust was more difficult to extinguish. The ERP results showed that, at the early stage of P1, the amplitude of conditioned fear was significantly smaller than that of conditioned disgust, and both were significantly different from the amplitude under neutral conditions; at the middle stage of N2, the difference between the amplitudes of conditioned disgust and conditioned fear disappeared, but they were still significantly different from the amplitudes of conditioned neutral stimuli; at the late stage of P3, the difference between conditioned disgust and conditioned neutral stimuli disappeared, but the difference between conditioned fear and neutral stimuli remained, suggesting that acquired fear was more difficult to extinguish than acquired disgust in terms of how the brain works.Qing ZengLishan LvXifu ZhengFrontiers Media S.A.articleextinctionconditioned responsedisgustfearERPPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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topic extinction
conditioned response
disgust
fear
ERP
Psychology
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spellingShingle extinction
conditioned response
disgust
fear
ERP
Psychology
BF1-990
Qing Zeng
Lishan Lv
Xifu Zheng
Is Acquired Disgust More Difficult to Extinguish Than Acquired Fear? an Event-Related Potential Study
description This study used the classical conditioned acquisition and extinction paradigm to compare which of the two emotions, acquired disgust and acquired fear, was more difficult to extinguish, based on behavioral assessments and the event-related potential (ERP) technique. Behavioral assessments revealed that, following successful conditioned extinction, acquired disgust was more difficult to extinguish. The ERP results showed that, at the early stage of P1, the amplitude of conditioned fear was significantly smaller than that of conditioned disgust, and both were significantly different from the amplitude under neutral conditions; at the middle stage of N2, the difference between the amplitudes of conditioned disgust and conditioned fear disappeared, but they were still significantly different from the amplitudes of conditioned neutral stimuli; at the late stage of P3, the difference between conditioned disgust and conditioned neutral stimuli disappeared, but the difference between conditioned fear and neutral stimuli remained, suggesting that acquired fear was more difficult to extinguish than acquired disgust in terms of how the brain works.
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author Qing Zeng
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Xifu Zheng
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Lishan Lv
Xifu Zheng
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title Is Acquired Disgust More Difficult to Extinguish Than Acquired Fear? an Event-Related Potential Study
title_short Is Acquired Disgust More Difficult to Extinguish Than Acquired Fear? an Event-Related Potential Study
title_full Is Acquired Disgust More Difficult to Extinguish Than Acquired Fear? an Event-Related Potential Study
title_fullStr Is Acquired Disgust More Difficult to Extinguish Than Acquired Fear? an Event-Related Potential Study
title_full_unstemmed Is Acquired Disgust More Difficult to Extinguish Than Acquired Fear? an Event-Related Potential Study
title_sort is acquired disgust more difficult to extinguish than acquired fear? an event-related potential study
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/1152cfffa09747bbab74ef2510768a7c
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