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

Fig. 4. Event-related physiological arousal decreases during repeated exposure but does not predict approach behavior.

Fig. 4

a Physiological arousal, measured with event-related SCRs, decreased for both fear-relevant and neutral cues, but decreases were greater for fear relevant cues, indicated by a highly significant stimulus by time interaction. Subjects showed higher SCRs to fear relevant cues compared to neutral cues during early but not late trials of repeated exposure. Points and error-bars denote means and SEMs. b There was no significant relationship between decreases in physiological arousal to fear-relevant cues and approach behavior. The scatter plot shows the association between decreases in SCR (spiders: early>late) and approach behavior at the 24-h time point.