Introduction
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EVENTS, EVENT
The ability to predict threat is fundamental for survival and requires remembering predictive cues. However, when threat is absent, lingering aversive memory can contribute to trauma-related clinical conditions (The molecular processes supporting fear memory acquisition and consolidation in the amygdala (This previous study used cued delay fear conditioning as an experimental model, in which threat predictor and aversive outcome are simultaneously presented. Yet, intrusive memory and physiological arousal after psychological trauma cannot only be triggered by stimuli present during trauma, but also by those that occurred at some interval before the traumatic event (In the laboratory, prediction by temporally preceding events is modelled in trace fear conditioning, where CS and US are separated in time (