The Naked Scientists
Toggle navigation
Login
Register
Podcasts
The Naked Scientists
eLife
Naked Genetics
Naked Astronomy
In short
Naked Neuroscience
Ask! The Naked Scientists
Question of the Week
Archive
Video
SUBSCRIBE to our Podcasts
Articles
Science News
Features
Interviews
Answers to Science Questions
Get Naked
Donate
Do an Experiment
Science Forum
Ask a Question
About
Meet the team
Our Sponsors
Site Map
Contact us
User menu
Login
Register
Search
Home
Help
Search
Tags
Recent Topics
Login
Register
Naked Science Forum
Life Sciences
Physiology & Medicine
Is fear actively suppressing emotional learning ?
« previous
next »
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Down
Is fear actively suppressing emotional learning ?
2 Replies
3550 Views
0 Tags
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
smart
(OP)
Naked Science Forum King!
2459
Activity:
0%
Thanked: 38 times
Is fear actively suppressing emotional learning ?
«
on:
10/12/2015 13:26:32 »
Is fear suppressing the generation of new memories and learning ? If so, how can fear conditioning can stimulates learning of aversive events ? It is possible to deprogram the consciousness of aversive memories in order to acquire new types of learning?
Logged
Not all who wander are lost...
evan_au
Global Moderator
Naked Science Forum GOD!
11034
Activity:
8.5%
Thanked: 1486 times
Re: Is fear actively suppressing emotional learning ?
«
Reply #1 on:
10/12/2015 20:19:51 »
Quote from: tkadm30
Is fear actively suppressing emotional learning ?
I would say that fear causes (fearful) emotional learning, and the stress involved discourages higher forms of learning.
Learning about emotional events occurs to some extent in the
amygdala
, near the brain stem.
Higher learning occurs in the pre-frontal cortex.
Some research is taking place on
emotion-driven machine learning
. Time will tell whether computers become emotional learners - and whether instructors who attempt to teach by fear and intimidation will produce stunted software packages.
Logged
cheryl j
Naked Science Forum King!
1478
Activity:
0%
Thanked: 6 times
Re: Is fear actively suppressing emotional learning ?
«
Reply #2 on:
03/01/2016 06:59:42 »
Of course, if what you happen to be afraid of isn't connected to the content of what you are also trying to learn, I could see that fear interfering - because a part of your brain thinks you are paying attention to the wrong thing and ignoring some more important threat.
Logged
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Up
« previous
next »
Tags:
There was an error while thanking
Thanking...