Lea Hildebrandt

@leahilde.bsky.social

Super excited to have this paper finally published! 🎉 Using an immersive VR foraging paradigm, we show that different human defensive states can be distinguished across movement, physiology, and subjective experience, rather than being treated as a single "freezing" response. @gamerlab.bsky.social

Unraveling the behavioral and autonomic dynamics of defensive states in humans in an unconstrained, immersive virtual world

Defensive responses to threats are crucial for mental and physical health. Animal studies highlight different defense modes related to threat proximit…

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