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This project investigates how humans select defensive actions when threatened, using virtual reality and motion-capture technology. It aims to understand the psychological and neural mechanisms behind these actions, providing insights into anxiety disorders and improving diagnostics and therapies.
Run away, sidestep, duck-and-cover, watch: when under threat, humans immediately choreograph a large repertoire of defensive actions.
Understanding action-selection under threat is important for anybody wanting to explain why anxiety disorders imply some of these behaviours in harmless situations.
Current concepts of human defensive behaviour are largely derived from rodent research and focus on a small number of broad, cross-species, action tendencies.
This is likely to underestimate the comple…
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United Kingdom, London
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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