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Incentive Salience
Incentive salience is a motivational property assigned by the brain to a stimulus, making it attract attention of the individual and and ‘wanted’. According…
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Fight-Flight-or-Freeze System or FFFS is one of the three systems regulating human behavior proposed by Gray’s reinforcement sensitivity theory. The functioning of the FFFS…
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