Immediate Extinction Versus Delayed Extinction
Maren, S. (2014). Nature and causes of the immediate extinction deficit: A brief review. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 113(Supplement C), 19-24. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.10.012 Last week, one of my colleagues raised a question that I didn't aware before: the immediate extinction and delayed extinction may be different substantially. This difference is so huge that, as she said, replicate a delayed extinction paradigm with an immediate extinction one may be of great danger. So I checked the literature, and do found many studies did the comparison. In the article review part, the author mentioned 17 article, including 4 studies using human subjects and 13 studies used animals (mostly rats). Although the initial reports about the immediate extinction are very positive ( immediate extinction could "erase" fear memory) (Meyers, et al., 2006), but later studies found complicated results. There are more studies reported the immediate extinction deficit, i.e., immediate...