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Human Fear Conditioning Conducted in Full Immersion 3-Dimensional Virtual Reality
 

Human Fear Conditioning Conducted in Full Immersion 3-Dimensional Virtual Reality

Article DOI: 10.3791/1993-v 10:39 min August 9th, 2010
August 9th, 2010

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Summary

Classical fear conditioning paradigm was adapted for human participants in a fully immersive virtual reality setting. Using a discrimination paradigm, conditioned fear, cue and context memory retention, and extinction was measured with skin conductance response to dynamic virtual snakes and spiders (the conditioned stimuli) in two distinct virtual contexts.

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Fear Conditioning Virtual Reality 3-dimensional VR Human Research Neural Mechanisms Conditioned Emotional Behaviors Methodological Issues Immersive VR Environment Sensory Modalities Environmental Cues Fear Extinction Relapse Prevention
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