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Learning static and dynamic mappings with local self-supervised plasticity

Pantelis Vafeidis
California Institute of Technology
Sep 7, 2022

Animals exhibit remarkable learning capabilities with little direct supervision. Likewise, self-supervised learning is an emergent paradigm in artificial intelligence, closing the performance gap to supervised learning. In the context of biology, self-supervised learning corresponds to a setting where one sense or specific stimulus may serve as a supervisory signal for another. After learning, the latter can be used to predict the former. On the implementation level, it has been demonstrated that such predictive learning can occur at the single neuron level, in compartmentalized neurons that separate and associate information from different streams. We demonstrate the power such self-supervised learning over unsupervised (Hebb-like) learning rules, which depend heavily on stimulus statistics, in two examples: First, in the context of animal navigation where predictive learning can associate internal self-motion information always available to the animal with external visual landmark information, leading to accurate path-integration in the dark. We focus on the well-characterized fly head direction system and show that our setting learns a connectivity strikingly similar to the one reported in experiments. The mature network is a quasi-continuous attractor and reproduces key experiments in which optogenetic stimulation controls the internal representation of heading, and where the network remaps to integrate with different gains. Second, we show that incorporating global gating by reward prediction errors allows the same setting to learn conditioning at the neuronal level with mixed selectivity. At its core, conditioning entails associating a neural activity pattern induced by an unconditioned stimulus (US) with the pattern arising in response to a conditioned stimulus (CS). Solving the generic problem of pattern-to-pattern associations naturally leads to emergent cognitive phenomena like blocking, overshadowing, saliency effects, extinction, interstimulus interval effects etc. Surprisingly, we find that the same network offers a reductionist mechanism for causal inference by resolving the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy.

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Brain-body interactions that modulate fear

Alexandra Klein
Kheirbeck lab, UCSF
Mar 30, 2022

In most animals including in humans, emotions occur together with changes in the body, such as variations in breathing or heart rate, sweaty palms, or facial expressions. It has been suggested that this interoceptive information acts as a feedback signal to the brain, enabling adaptive modulation of emotions that is essential for survival. As such, fear, one of our basic emotions, must be kept in a functional balance to minimize risk-taking while allowing for the pursuit of essential needs. However, the neural mechanisms underlying this adaptive modulation of fear remain poorly understood. In this talk, I want to present and discuss the data from my PhD work where we uncover a crucial role for the interoceptive insular cortex in detecting changes in heart rate to maintain an equilibrium between the extinction and maintenance of fear memories in mice.

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CONTEXT LEARNING IN EXTINCTION: SINGLE-CELL EVIDENCE FOR ATTENTIONAL AND GENERALIZATION MODELS

Juan Medina Peschken, Jonas Rose

FENS Forum 2026

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NEURAL MECHANISMS OF TASTE-IMMUNE ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING: BRAINSTEM AND INSULAR CONTRIBUTIONS TO EXTINCTION OF CONDITIONED IMMUNE RESPONSES

Julia Bihorac, Aaron Schroers, Laura Gálvez-Melero, Manfred Schedlowski, Martin Hadamitzky

FENS Forum 2026

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THE ROLE OF THE PROGESTERONE TO ESTRADIOL RATIO IN FEAR EXTINCTION IN MICE AND HUMANS

Jaime Fabregat Nabás, Eric Raul Velasco, Marta Torrent, David Fabregat-Safont, Élida Alechaga, Alex Gomez-Gomez, Victoria Mueller, Mohammad Milad, Rafael Torrubia, Miguel Angel Fullana, Katharina Schultebraucks, Oscar Pozo, Raül Andero

FENS Forum 2026

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REINFORCEMENT CONTINGENCY SHAPES EXTINCTION DYNAMICS IN PIGEONS (<EM>COLUMBA LIVIA</EM>)

Robert Willma, Mina Khodadadi, Vanessa Aschoff, Jonas Rose, Roland Pusch, Onur Güntürkün

FENS Forum 2026

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5-HT2C RECEPTOR MODULATION OF LEARNED AND INNATE FEAR: SEROTONERGIC CONTROL OF FEAR EXTINCTION AND PREDATOR THREAT COPING

Hannah Schulte, Hanna Böke, Patricia Lössl, Maria Worm, Leander Koch, Ida Siveke, Stefan Herlitze, Katharina Spoida

FENS Forum 2026

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EXTINCTION OF CONDITIONED TASTE AVERSION INDUCES METAPLASTIC MODULATION OF IN VIVO LONG-TERM DEPRESSION IN THE INSULAR CORTEX

Martha Escobar, Carlos Tadeo, Beatriz Gutiérrez-Vera

FENS Forum 2026

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ACUTE CORTICOSTERONE ALTERS FEAR MEMORY CONSOLIDATION AND EXTINCTION IN RODENTS​

Marichi Makaridze, Gia Kutelia, Rusiko Ansiani, Nanuli Doreulee

FENS Forum 2026

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CEREBELLUM-VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA INTERACTIONS DURING FEAR EXTINCTION IN CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION AT 7 T FMRI

Enzo Nio, Alice Doubliez, Nicolas Diekmann, Patrick Pais Pereira, Thomas M. Ernst, Viktor Pfaffenrot, Metin Üngör, Christian J. Merz, Sen Cheng, Harald H. Quick, Dagmar Timmann

FENS Forum 2026

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MODULATION OF NEURAL PLASTICITY AND CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING AND EXTINCTION BY A <EM>PSILOCYBE CUBENSIS</EM> EXTRACT IN HIGH- AND LOW-FREEZING WISTAR RAT LINES

Julian Corredor-Gamba, Guillermo Escobar-Cornejo, Yoly Rodriguez-Rojas, Silvia Maisonnette, Flávia Rosseti, Thomas Krahe, Jesus Landeira-Fernandez, Elizabeth Jiménez-Díaz, Fernando Cardenas

FENS Forum 2026

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TEMPORAL ROLES OF VTA DOPAMINE NEURONS IN FEAR LEARNING, EXTINCTION, AND POST-LEARNING SLEEP

Laurine Petit, Antonieta Espejel, Fares Sayegh, Theo Gagneux, Patricia Bonnavion

FENS Forum 2026

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EFFECT OF REWARD DISTRIBUTION AND EXTINCTION ON MOUSE BEHAVIOR AND PLACE CELL DISTRIBUTION IN AN OPEN-FIELD TASK

Genevieve Wager, Gal Shayer, Stefano Recanatesi, Vijay Balasubramanian, Genela Morris, Dori Derdikman

FENS Forum 2026

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PSILOCYBIN AND IBOGAINE FACILITATE EXTINCTION OF COCAINE SEEKING WITH LIMITED EFFECTS ON CUE-INDUCED REINSTATEMENT

Isis Rita Anzel Koutrouli, Vojtěch Brejtr, Klára Šíchová, Marek Schwendt, Chrysostomos Charalambous, Marek Nikolič, Tomáš Páleníček

FENS Forum 2026

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CIRCUIT AND NEUROMODULATORY MECHANISMS ENABLING GENERALIZATION OF CUED FEAR EXTINCTION

Eve Hammerman, Aria Zhang, Shiv Patel, Carter Roebuck, Suzanne Penna, Shania Gonzalez, Victor Cazares

FENS Forum 2026

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NEURAL REPRESENTATION OF AVERSIVE MEMORIES IN NUCLEUS REUNIENS DURING EXPRESSION AND EXTINCTION OF COMPLEX DEFENSIVE RESPONSES

Mayumi Watanabe, Linda Maria Requie, Carlo Castoldi, Bianca A. Silva

FENS Forum 2026

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DISSECTING THE NEURAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING NATURALISTIC FEAR EXTINCTION IN MICE

Linda Maria Requie, Mayumi Watanabe, Carlo Castoldi, Staël Nadaud, Lilirose Spillebout, Bianca A. Silva

FENS Forum 2026

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THE EFFECTS OF PSILOCYBIN ON THE EXTINCTION OF LEARNED FEAR IN ADOLESCENT RATS

Elizabeth Virakorn, Kathryn D. Baker, Rick Richardson

FENS Forum 2026

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EARLY-LIFE STRESS IMPAIRS AVERSIVE MEMORY EXTINCTION AND ELEVATES OXIDATIVE STRESS IN THE DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS OF ADULT MALE AND FEMALE RATS

Robbert Mota Pereira, Kairo Alan Albernaz-Mariano, Marco Andrea Riva, Carolina Demarchi Munhoz

FENS Forum 2026

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GENDER AND STRAIN COMPARISON IN A FEAR CONDITIONING AND EXTINCTION PROCEDURE IN THE RAT

Anne-Marie Hernier, Emmanuelle Camperos, Elise Esneault

FENS Forum 2026

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POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS OF NEURONAL ENSEMBLES IN THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX INVOLVED IN THE RETRIEVAL OF FEAR EXTINCTION MEMORY

Tiancheng Sun, Zhang Ying, Hu Songli, Qiu Shuang

FENS Forum 2026

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PROTOCOL-DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF INFRALIMBIC LACTATE SIGNALING ON COCAINE MEMORY: EXTINCTION VERSUS RECONSOLIDATION

Pau Llopis Baterno, Elisa Marín-Samprieto, Carlos Alba-Hernández, Noelia Sánchez-Pérez, Raúl Pastor, Marta Miquel, Laura Font

FENS Forum 2026

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ERK phosphorylation in DG and NACC after morphine CPP extinction. Involvement of morphine encapsulation in liposomes

Pilar Almela, Irene García-Masegosa, Celia Martínez-Fernández, Victoria Gomez-Murcia, Javier Navarro-Zaragoza
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Repeated administration of N-acetylcysteine could reduce extinction-responding in the morphine conditioned rats

Seyedeh-Najmeh Katebi, Anahita Torkaman-Boutorabi, Abbas Haghparast
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Sex-dependent effects of OXR1 blockade on acquisition, retention and extinction of active avoidance

Laia Vila, Soleil García-Brito, Laura Aldavert-Vera, Pilar Segura-Torres
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Synchronization of a cerebello-thalamo-prefrontal pathway regulates fear extinction learning

Jimena L. Frontera, Romain W. Sala, Ioana Georgescu, Hind Baba Aissa, Daniela Popa, Clement Lena
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Unique gene expression profiles in the extinction of cocaine and nicotine self-administration

Caspar Muenstermann, Kelly Clemens, Sarah Baracz
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Dopamine D3R antagonism facilitates the extinction of drug-seeking behaviours in opiate CPA model and is associated with decreased Iba1 levels in the medial prefrontal cortex

Aurelio Franco-García, Victoria Gómez-Murcia, M. Victoria Milanés, Cristina Núñez

FENS Forum 2024

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Effect of acute and chronic activation of relaxin-3 receptor (RXFP3) on contextual fear acquisition and extinction in the rat retrosplenial cortex

Mónica Navarro Sánchez, Isis Gil-Miravet, Daniel Montero-Caballero, Mohamed Aly Ebraheem Zahran, Aroa Mañas-Ojeda, Esther Castillo-Gómez, Francisco. E Olucha-Bordonau

FENS Forum 2024

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Effects of safety instructions on fear extinction and extinction retrieval in patients with anxiety disorders

Annalisa Lipp, Christian J. Merz, Oliver T. Wolf, Armin Zlomuzica

FENS Forum 2024

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Empowering collaborative neuroscience: Optimizing FAIR data sharing with a tailored open-source repository for CRC 1280 “Extinction Learning”

Tobias Otto, Marlene Pacharra, Johannes Frenzel, Nina O. C. Winter

FENS Forum 2024

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Facilitation of social fear extinction in adolescent male mice

Sukwon Lee

FENS Forum 2024

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Functional architecture of dopamine neurons driving fear extinction learning

Ximena Icaria Salinas Hernandez, Daphne Zafiri, Torfi Sigurdsson, Sevil Duvarci

FENS Forum 2024

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Modulation of fear extinction in mice by offline or online tDCS

Sarah Rubens, Andries Van Schuerbeek, Vincent Van Waes, Dimitri De Bundel

FENS Forum 2024

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Molecular mechanisms of remote fear memory extinction

Lisa Watt, Johannes Gräff

FENS Forum 2024

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A multiple Arc tagging system to investigate the effect of psilocybin on fear memory extinction

Alessandra Franceschini, Alessia Mastrodonato, Gergely Turi, Christine Ann Denny

FENS Forum 2024

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NT3-TrkC signaling in the brain fear network underlies inter-individual differences in the formation and maintenance of contextual fear extinction memories

Gianluca Masella, Francisca Silva, Elisa Corti, Garikoitz Azkona, Maria Francisca Madeira, Ângelo R. Tomé, Samira G. Ferreira, Rodrigo A. Cunha, Carlos B. Duarte, Monica Santos

FENS Forum 2024

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Prefrontal cortical subregions bidirectionally control fear extinction through projections to the brainstem noradrenaline system

Mayumi Watanabe, Akira Uematsu, Joshua Johansen

FENS Forum 2024

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Mechanisms of contextual fear memory suppression and extinction by the Nucleus Reuniens-CA1 pathway

Heather Ratigan & Mark Sheffield

COSYNE 2023

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Role of the NPS system in fear extinction: Sex differences in emotional regulation in mice

Marta Méndez-Couz, Kay Juengling

FENS Forum 2024

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Stimulus contiguity determines context in appetitive extinction learning

Juan Medina Peschken

FENS Forum 2024

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Role of CRF signalling in the lateral septum system in the regulation of social fear extinction

Atefeh Akbari, Rohit Menon, Inga Neumann

FENS Forum 2024

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