Learning to attend to threat accelerates and enhances memory consolidation.

Practice on a procedural task involves within-session learning and between-session consolidation of learning, with the latter requiring a minimum of about four hours to evolve due to involvement of slower cellular processes. Learning to attend to threats is vital for survival and thus may involve fa...

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Main Authors: Rany Abend, Avi Karni, Avi Sadeh, Nathan A Fox, Daniel S Pine, Yair Bar-Haim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3640061?pdf=render