RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Partial extinction and reinstatement
A1 Quintero Felipe, María José
A1 Molina, Patricia
A1 Flores Martín, Amanda
A1 López-Gutiérrez, Francisco José
A1 Morís Fernández, Joaquín
K1 Miedo
AB Fear extinction is not permanent but more vulnerable than the original fear memory, as relapse phenomena have traditionally shown. Partial extinction has been proposed as a strategy that may serve to mitigate relapses. Partial extinction differs from the standard procedure as it includes the occasional presentation of CS-US trials at the beginning of the extinction training. The present experiment, using an aversive differential conditioning procedure, evaluates whether partial extinction can reduce reinstatement, a specific form of relapse. The results showed that partial extinction did not mitigate reinstatement but proved effective to diminish the magnitude of the US expectation after a first reacquisition trial in a final test phase. The results reported are more consistent with theories that conceives extinction as the acquisition of new inhibitory learning rather than the erasure of the original conditioning.
YR 2018
FD 2018-09-25
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/16517
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/16517
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 4 mar 2026