NIH R01 · 2025
Neurobiology of Sensory Preconditioning
Summary Learning and memory storage is a complex process that has proven challenging to tackle. Despite significant progress in understanding classical conditioning, it is likely that in nature, the instructive value of reinforcing experiences is acquired rather than innate. In other words, many of our learning experiences occur by inferring value from a previously associative structure of the environment and not by the mere contiguity of conditioned and unconditioned. This is relevant because the association between seemingly neutral stimuli expands the gamut of possibilities to create meaningful associations and generalizations and increases the predictive power of moment-by-moment…
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