Interaction of attentional and learning processes during acquisition,generalization and loss of fear (C10*)

注意偏倚对焦虑症至关重要，但其在焦虑症病因和维持中的确切功能作用仍有待阐明。通过使用多模态方法，本项目将描述在恐惧习得过程中，注意过程对杏仁核回路功能可塑性的贡献。它将研究注意探索的差异如何形成恐惧泛化，以及如何利用动眼肌控制的刺激驱动效应来改变焦虑障碍的注意偏差。

Attentional biases are essential to anxiety disorders but their precise functional role in disorder etiology and maintenance remains be elucidated. By using a multimodal approach, the current project will characterize the contribution of attentional processes to functional plasticity in amygdala circuits during the acquisition of fear. It will investigate how differences in attentional exploration shape fear generalization and how stimulus-driven effects in oculomotor control can be exploited to modify attentional biases in anxiety disorders.