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. 2020 Aug 20;10:292. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-00887-2

Fig. 2. Amygdala activity decreases during repeated exposure and predicts approach behavior.

Fig. 2

a Red colors show voxels in the amygdala where we found significant reductions in neural activity when comparing early to late trials (stimulus by time contrast). Green colors show voxels in the amygdala where we found significant association between amygdala reductions to fear relevant cues (spider: early>late contrast) and approach behavior during the incentive conflict task 24 h after repeated exposure. Results are displayed on the standard MNI template. b Using extracted average beta-values for the entire amygdala ROIs we found significant decreases for fear-relevant but not neutral cues in both the left and right amygdala. Points and error-bars show mean and SEM. c Scatterplots show the correlation between left and right amygdala decreases respectively and approach behavior at 24-h time point. The amygdala values reflect decreases (spiders: early>late contrast) in the peak voxel from the voxel-wise regression analysis. The association was significant and similar in the left and right amygdala (left: r = 0.48; p < 0.001; right: r = 0.45; p = 0.002).