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Spontaneous Recovery

2004; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1101/lm.77504

1549-5485

Robert A. Rescorla,

Neural dynamics and brain function

Spontaneous recovery from extinction is one of the most basic phenomena of Pavlovian conditioning. Although it can be studied by using a variety of designs, some procedures are better than others for identifying the involvement of underlying learning processes. A wide range of different learning mechanisms has been suggested as being engaged by extinction, most of which have implications for the nature of spontaneous recovery. However, despite the centrality of the notion of spontaneous recovery to the understanding of extinction, the empirical literature on its determinants is relatively sparse and quite mixed. Its very ubiquity suggests that spontaneous recovery has multiple sources.