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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychophysiology
  • Cognitive Science

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  • The conditioned cardiac fear response is a key indicator of fear processing.
  • Neural mechanisms underlying fear conditioning and its cardiac manifestations are not fully understood.
  • Corticocardiac coupling, the interaction between brain activity and heart period, is crucial for understanding psychophysiological responses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural mechanisms of conditioned cardiac fear responses.
  • To examine how fear conditioning and extinction modulate corticocardiac coupling in humans.
  • To identify electrophysiological markers predictive of cardiac fear responses.

Main Methods:

  • Twenty-two participants underwent differential fear conditioning and extinction using face stimuli and loud noise bursts.
  • Electroencephalography (EEG) event-related potentials (ERPs) and heart period (HP) were recorded.
  • Time-lagged within-subject correlations assessed single-trial EEG amplitude and HP coupling.

Main Results:

  • Fear-conditioned stimuli (CS+) elicited cardiac deceleration during acquisition and recall.
  • A specific EEG response (250–500 ms) during recall predicted subsequent cardiac fear responses.
  • This corticocardiac coupling marker was specific to non-extinguished CS+ stimuli.

Conclusions:

  • Fear conditioning and extinction significantly modulate functional corticocardiac coupling in humans.
  • Specific neural activity predicts cardiac fear responses, highlighting a link between brain and heart.
  • Subcortical structures may enhance corticocardiac transmission to process consolidated conditioned fear.