@article{724521,
      recid = {724521},
      author = {Genheimer, Hannah,},
      title = {Fear and anxiety in virtual reality investigations of cue  and context conditioning in virtual environment /  [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 79 pages) :},
      abstract = {Virtual realities provide an outstanding tool in anxiety  research. A fear conditioning study investigates and  illustrates the development of anxiety disorders in humans.  Hannah Genheimer describes the scientific background of  fear and anxiety and presents an empirical study in a  highly controlled virtual environment. Psychophysiological  as well as subjective data on the participants? fear and  anxiety clearly show contextual fear conditioning. Cue  conditioning in the light of one-trial learning is  discussed. The results emphasize the promising application  of virtual environments in psychotherapy. Contents From  classical conditioning to contextual fear conditioning Fear  conditioning in virtual reality Explicit ratings and  physiological data Contextual conditioning and anxiety  disorders Target Groups Researchers and Students in the  field of biological and clinical psychology, neurobiology  and behavioral physiology Teachers and concerns focusing on  the development and application of virtual environments,  psychotherapists interested in anxiety and anxiety  disorders The Author Hannah Genheimer studied Biology and  wrote her interdisciplinary master thesis at the Department  of Psychology I in Wuerzburg. Currently, she works on the  investigation of fear and anxiety in her dissertation  project implicating fear conditioning in virtual reality  and vagus nerve stimulation.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/724521},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08203-1},
}