60
Participants
Start Date
November 15, 2021
Primary Completion Date
May 1, 2022
Study Completion Date
May 1, 2022
Novel Exploration
Exploration of a novel 3D-environment in virtual reality.
Threat conditioning
Session 1. Threat conditioning to two different (CS+, CS-) virtual reality contexts (i.e rooms). One of these is paired with a mild electric shock. The context paired with the electric shock (CS+) is counterbalanced across participants. Participants are instructed that they may receive electrical shocks during the procedure.
Extinction
Session 2. Participants are repeatedly exposed to the both contexts from session 1 (CS+, CS-), but no shocks are delivered.
Reinstatement
Session 3. Participants are again repeatedly exposed to both contexts from session 1 (CS+, CS-), after a few shocks delivered in a neutral context.
Visual attention control task
Session 2. A visual attention task used as a control task instead of novel exploration.
Uppsala University, deparmtent of Psychology, Uppsala
Uppsala University
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