Prediction error demarcates the transition from retrieval, to reconsolidation, to new learning

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Publication date 2014
Journal Learning & Memory
Volume | Issue number 21 | 11
Pages (from-to) 580-584
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  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract Although disrupting reconsolidation is promising in targeting emotional memories, the conditions under which memory becomes labile are still unclear. The current study showed that post-retrieval changes in expectancy as an index for prediction error may serve as a read-out for the underlying processes engaged by memory reactivation. Minor environmental changes define whether retrieval induces memory reconsolidation or the initiation of a new memory trace even before fear extinction can be observed.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.035493.114
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