Researchers have found in rats that anxiety takes cognition offline; the affected rats reverted to habit under stress. They contrasted cognitive learning with stimulus-response (habit) learning, and found the mechanisms competed.
There are two obvious ways to compensate for the impact of fear. One is to ingrain habits which would be adaptive responses when facing stressful situations. The other is stress management. The latter has the benefit of enabling cognition.
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