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Manipulating memory associations minimizes avoidance behavior
- Source :
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15:746161. Frontiers Media S.A., Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol 15 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2021.
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Abstract
- Memories of the past can guide humans to avoid harm. The logical consequence of this is if memories are changed, avoidance behavior should be affected. More than 80 years of false memory research has shown that people's memory can be re-constructed or distorted by receiving suggestive false feedback. The current study examined whether manipulating people's memories of learned associations would impact fear related behavior. A modified sensory preconditioning paradigm of fear learning was used. Critically, in a memory test after fear learning, participants received verbal false feedback to change their memory associations. After receiving the false feedback, participants' beliefs and memories ratings for learned associations decreased significantly compared to the no feedback condition. Furthermore, in the false feedback condition, participants no longer showed avoidance to fear conditioned stimuli and relevant subjective fear ratings dropped significantly. Our results suggest that manipulating memory associations might minimize avoidance behavior in fear conditioning. These data also highlight the role of memory in higher order conditioning. ispartof: FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE vol:15 ispartof: location:Switzerland status: published
- Subjects :
- Sensory preconditioning
avoidance
Cognitive Neuroscience
BF
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Second-order conditioning
EPISODIC MEMORY
False memory
false feedback
HM
FEAR
Logical consequence
BELIEF
MECHANISMS
memory
Behavioral Neuroscience
MISINFORMATION
Fear conditioning
Memory test
Science & Technology
False feedback
Neurosciences
nutritional and metabolic diseases
Brief Research Report
MIND
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Harm
SPREADING ACTIVATION
subjective fear ratings
RC0321
Neurosciences & Neurology
Psychology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Behavioral Sciences
sensory preconditioning
RC321-571
Neuroscience
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16625153
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fbc6368e6ba854feaf16c237addad6f4