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Merz, Christian J.; Wolf, Oliver T. – Learning & Memory, 2019
The immediate extinction deficit describes a higher return of fear when extinction takes place immediately after fear acquisition compared to a delayed extinction design. One explanation for this phenomenon encompasses the remaining emotional arousal evoked by fear acquisition to be still present during immediate, but not delayed extinction. In…
Descriptors: Fear, Learning Processes, Task Analysis, Recall (Psychology)
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Cunningham, Tony J.; Leal, Stephanie L.; Yassa, Michael A.; Payne, Jessica D. – Learning & Memory, 2018
Stress influences how we remember emotional events and how these events shape future behaviors. However, the impact of stress on memory specificity for emotional events has yet to be examined. To this end, the present study utilized a mnemonic discrimination task that taxes hippocampal pattern separation, the process of distinguishing between…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Memory, Behavior Patterns