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Learning static and dynamic mappings with local self-supervised plasticity
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.
Brain-body interactions that modulate fear
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.
CONTEXT LEARNING IN EXTINCTION: SINGLE-CELL EVIDENCE FOR ATTENTIONAL AND GENERALIZATION MODELS
FENS Forum 2026
NEURAL MECHANISMS OF TASTE-IMMUNE ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING: BRAINSTEM AND INSULAR CONTRIBUTIONS TO EXTINCTION OF CONDITIONED IMMUNE RESPONSES
FENS Forum 2026
THE ROLE OF THE PROGESTERONE TO ESTRADIOL RATIO IN FEAR EXTINCTION IN MICE AND HUMANS
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REINFORCEMENT CONTINGENCY SHAPES EXTINCTION DYNAMICS IN PIGEONS (<EM>COLUMBA LIVIA</EM>)
FENS Forum 2026
5-HT2C RECEPTOR MODULATION OF LEARNED AND INNATE FEAR: SEROTONERGIC CONTROL OF FEAR EXTINCTION AND PREDATOR THREAT COPING
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EXTINCTION OF CONDITIONED TASTE AVERSION INDUCES METAPLASTIC MODULATION OF IN VIVO LONG-TERM DEPRESSION IN THE INSULAR CORTEX
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ACUTE CORTICOSTERONE ALTERS FEAR MEMORY CONSOLIDATION AND EXTINCTION IN RODENTS
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CEREBELLUM-VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA INTERACTIONS DURING FEAR EXTINCTION IN CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION AT 7 T FMRI
FENS Forum 2026
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
FENS Forum 2026
TEMPORAL ROLES OF VTA DOPAMINE NEURONS IN FEAR LEARNING, EXTINCTION, AND POST-LEARNING SLEEP
FENS Forum 2026
EFFECT OF REWARD DISTRIBUTION AND EXTINCTION ON MOUSE BEHAVIOR AND PLACE CELL DISTRIBUTION IN AN OPEN-FIELD TASK
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PSILOCYBIN AND IBOGAINE FACILITATE EXTINCTION OF COCAINE SEEKING WITH LIMITED EFFECTS ON CUE-INDUCED REINSTATEMENT
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CIRCUIT AND NEUROMODULATORY MECHANISMS ENABLING GENERALIZATION OF CUED FEAR EXTINCTION
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NEURAL REPRESENTATION OF AVERSIVE MEMORIES IN NUCLEUS REUNIENS DURING EXPRESSION AND EXTINCTION OF COMPLEX DEFENSIVE RESPONSES
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DISSECTING THE NEURAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING NATURALISTIC FEAR EXTINCTION IN MICE
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THE EFFECTS OF PSILOCYBIN ON THE EXTINCTION OF LEARNED FEAR IN ADOLESCENT RATS
FENS Forum 2026
EARLY-LIFE STRESS IMPAIRS AVERSIVE MEMORY EXTINCTION AND ELEVATES OXIDATIVE STRESS IN THE DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS OF ADULT MALE AND FEMALE RATS
FENS Forum 2026
GENDER AND STRAIN COMPARISON IN A FEAR CONDITIONING AND EXTINCTION PROCEDURE IN THE RAT
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POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS OF NEURONAL ENSEMBLES IN THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX INVOLVED IN THE RETRIEVAL OF FEAR EXTINCTION MEMORY
FENS Forum 2026
PROTOCOL-DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF INFRALIMBIC LACTATE SIGNALING ON COCAINE MEMORY: EXTINCTION VERSUS RECONSOLIDATION
FENS Forum 2026
ERK phosphorylation in DG and NACC after morphine CPP extinction. Involvement of morphine encapsulation in liposomes
Repeated administration of N-acetylcysteine could reduce extinction-responding in the morphine conditioned rats
Sex-dependent effects of OXR1 blockade on acquisition, retention and extinction of active avoidance
Synchronization of a cerebello-thalamo-prefrontal pathway regulates fear extinction learning
Unique gene expression profiles in the extinction of cocaine and nicotine self-administration
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
FENS Forum 2024
Effect of acute and chronic activation of relaxin-3 receptor (RXFP3) on contextual fear acquisition and extinction in the rat retrosplenial cortex
FENS Forum 2024
Effects of safety instructions on fear extinction and extinction retrieval in patients with anxiety disorders
FENS Forum 2024
Empowering collaborative neuroscience: Optimizing FAIR data sharing with a tailored open-source repository for CRC 1280 “Extinction Learning”
FENS Forum 2024
Facilitation of social fear extinction in adolescent male mice
FENS Forum 2024
Functional architecture of dopamine neurons driving fear extinction learning
FENS Forum 2024
Modulation of fear extinction in mice by offline or online tDCS
FENS Forum 2024
Molecular mechanisms of remote fear memory extinction
FENS Forum 2024
A multiple Arc tagging system to investigate the effect of psilocybin on fear memory extinction
FENS Forum 2024
NT3-TrkC signaling in the brain fear network underlies inter-individual differences in the formation and maintenance of contextual fear extinction memories
FENS Forum 2024
Prefrontal cortical subregions bidirectionally control fear extinction through projections to the brainstem noradrenaline system
FENS Forum 2024
Mechanisms of contextual fear memory suppression and extinction by the Nucleus Reuniens-CA1 pathway
COSYNE 2023
Role of the NPS system in fear extinction: Sex differences in emotional regulation in mice
FENS Forum 2024
Stimulus contiguity determines context in appetitive extinction learning
FENS Forum 2024
Role of CRF signalling in the lateral septum system in the regulation of social fear extinction
FENS Forum 2024
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