Mana R. Ehlers

Anxiety-Related Traits Are Associated with Subjective Biases but not Altered Threat-Safety Discrimination

This study examines how anxiety-related traits are linked to subjective fear responses but not to altered threat-safety discrimination across different phases of fear conditioning.

Robust group- but limited individual-level (longitudinal) reliability and insights into cross-phases response prediction of conditioned fear

This study examines reliability and response prediction in fear conditioning across time and phases, finding limited individual-level longitudinal reliability but some cross-phase predictability.

Reactivation of hedonic but not sensory representations in human emotional learning

This study investigates what aspects of an unconditioned stimulus are transferred to a conditioned stimulus during emotional learning, finding that hedonic rather than sensory features are reactivated.

Decoding representations of discriminatory and hedonic information during appetitive and aversive touch

This study uses fMRI and pattern component modeling to show that hedonic and discriminatory tactile information are represented separately in the brain, with hedonic touch linked to interoceptive and affective regions.