title: Prediction error demarcates the transition from retrieval, to reconsolidation, to new learning.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Dieuwke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sevenster
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Beckers
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands m.kindt@uva.nl.
authors.forename: Merel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kindt
mesh_terms: D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D004597:Electroshock; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D011939:Mental Recall; D012055:Reinforcement Schedule