APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Title Computational and Neural Mechanisms of Biases in Threat Detection
- Jingwen Jin
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York - Tamara Sussman
Columbia University Medical Center / New York Psychiatric Institute - Akos Szekely
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York - Aprajita Mohanty
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York
Abstract
Most studies focus on “bottom-up” or automatic ways threats are perceived and “top-down” factors (e.g., contexts, prior cues) are understudied. We show that prior knowledge regarding threat and its probability facilitates perceptual decision-making by biasing towards threat decisions which may due to precise cortical representations of threat before their arrival.
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