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Fear Extinction Requires Reward

Author(s) -

Sheena A. Josselyn,

Paul W. Frankland

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2018.09.036

Subject(s) - extinction (optical mineralogy) , psychology , neuroscience , character (mathematics) , classical conditioning , cognitive psychology , associative learning , biology , conditioning , paleontology , statistics , geometry , mathematics

Learning theorists long hypothesized that appetitive and aversive motivational states influence one another antagonistically. Here, Felsenberg et al. show that the activity of neurons in Drosophila known to be important in appetitive conditioning is necessary for the extinction of aversive conditioning, thereby uncovering biological evidence for this opponent-process.

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