Interoceptive fear conditioning to respiratory cues. KU Leuven
Interoceptive conditioning (IC) occurs when an interoceptive stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS), i.c., is able to trigger a conditioned reaction (CR) because of its past contingent pairing with an unconditional stimulus (US). IC can be contrasted with exteroceptive conditioning (EC), in which an exteroceptive CS (e.g., tone) predicts the significant event (US; e.g., shock). IC has been studied in the context of drug tolerance and ...