Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA10406 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 18 May 2000 19:10:44 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:08:21 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: PHOBIAS To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <39243195.A1B04F23@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-PBI-NC404 (Win95; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: ja,en References: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0005181237330.22642-100000@poirot.umd.edu> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Lawrence,
> Can you say a bit more about the characteristics of techniques where
> resurgence occurs?
>
Sorry, it was something I read in passing. I can't even give a
reference. However, I was reading about research in the neurology
of memory, and the idea that there is a system of emotional
memory that is separate from both procedural and declarative
memory. The general idea is that, unlike the other memory
systems, emotional memory structures are not so plastic, and do
not extinguish in the same way or to the same degree, if at all.
Rather, emotional responses may be inhibited and superceded.
(That is part of normal neurological functioning, anyway. Most
behavior requires both neuronal excitation and inhibition.)
If you can show that your technique actually extinguishes
emotional memory structures in the brain, that would be a very
significant result, I think. :-)
None of this tells against its efficacy in practice, however. :-)
Best,
Bill
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