Reminder Cues Modulate the Renewal Effect in Human Predictive Learning.

ABSTRACT: Associative learning refers to our ability to learn about regularities in our environment. When a stimulus is repeatedly followed by a specific outcome, we learn to expect the outcome in the presence of the stimulus. We are also able to modify established expectations in the face of disconfirming information (the stimulus is no longer followed by the outcome). Both the change of environmental regularities and the related processes of adaptation are referred to as extinction. However, extinction does not erase the initially acquired expectations. For instance, following successful extinction, the initially learned expectations can recover when there is a context change - a phenomenon called the renewal effect, which is considered as a model for relapse after exposure therapy. Renewal was fo

SUBMITTER: Bustamante J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5167694 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature