“…Crucial for the later generalization test, successful fear conditioning was indexed in both ssVEP amplitude and arousal, valence and US expectancy ratings during acquisition, and social anxiety was not associated with stronger discrimination between conditioned stimuli or generally increased ratings. Thus, the CS+ during acquisition elicited increased visuocortical responses reflecting enhanced sensory engagement (Stegmann et al, 2019a;Wieser et al, 2014c). However, during habituation and acquisition, subjects with higher social anxiety showed overall amplified visuocortical responses to the face stimuli, which is in line with the notion of generally heightened sensitivity to facial expressions in social anxiety disorder (McTeague et al, 2018) and has been observed previously in Bayes factors of main and interaction effect models (M 1 -M 3 ) compared to the 'random intercept only' model (Null model) for the lateral inhibition pattern (weights: +2,-2, +0.5, +1, +0.5,-2 for CS+, GS1, GS2, GS3, GS4, CS-), quadratic trend (weights: +2.5334, +1.0934,-0.0267, À0.8267,-1.3067, À1.4667) and linear trend (weights: +2.5, +1.5, +0.5,-0.5, À1.5,-2.5).…”