Quotes About Reconsolidation

Conceptual Differences Between Consolidation and Reconsolidation. According to consolidation theory each time we retrieve a memory we retrieve the original memory. Reconsolidation theory, on the other hand, suggests that each time we retrieve a memory, the memory is potentially changed (updated); thus, you retrieve the memory you stored after the last retrieval rather than the original memory.

We have seen that when an emotional learning or schema is the underlying cause of a therapy client's presenting symptom, the schema can be retrieved into direct, explicit experience and then profoundly unlearned and dissolved by the same sequence of experiences that neuroscientists identified in reconsolidation research