Cue and Contextual Fear Conditioning

Fear conditioning is a general behavioral paradigm used to test the ability to create associations and learn to avoid aversive stimuli. There are two ways of clues and situational fear conditioning (Kim & Jung, 2006). A neutral conditional stimulus (CS) is paired with a hatred unconditional stimulus (US) to cause a strong unconditional fear response (UR). Neutral CS can now activate a conditional response (CR) after a sustained training period.

Pairing a harmful conditional stimulus (CS) with an aversive unconditional stimulus (US) during fear conditioning results in a fear reaction to CS death when presented alone. This fear response is regulated by contextual cues (ie, stimuli that exist during conditioning training, but poor predictors occurring in the United States). In the paradigm applicable to fMRI studies, we examined the influence of visual context cues on conditional autonomous fear reaction of auditory CS. In the different fear conditioning example, two auditory tones of different frequencies (3 seconds, 80 dB) were used as CS + and CS - when subjects performed an irrelevant visual response time (RT) assignment. The background color (context) color of the visual display (independent of the RT task) is blue or green (CT + and CT -, balanced among subjects), every 12 ± 3 in pseudo-random order Change. CS - has never paired with the United States. Supported by Wellcome Trust

Let's see why this is happening. Our brains tend to remember things. In addition to reading materials in front of us, we also use contextual clues. Contextual clues described by scientists - music, light, background color. They are subconscious and often can not be traced, but they play an important role in information retrieval. Therefore, it is better for something to happen in a learning environment like music. As it turns out, we can not predict the environment we have to implement, so we can say that we should change the environment we are preparing better. We need to deal with popular quizzes in life, voluntary pickup games, jam sessions, and can not give traditional advice for building strict routines. So, you can just try another room, just like a hall, a bedroom or something you can think of. At another time of the day. Take the guitar outdoors, enter the park, and enter the forest. Switch the operating range. Listen to classical instead of EDM