Human learning of likes and dislikes: A test of the dual process account and an investigation of its neural substrates

人类情感学习的双重过程理论认为，情感学习（好恶的学习）和关系学习（预测关系的学习）反映了不同的学习机制。 例如，据说情感学习不会消失，这一说法对基于行为的焦虑治疗方法的设计产生了深远的影响。 该项目将测试这一点和其他双重过程帐户的预测。 此外，它将扩大情感学习的实验分析，以收购喜欢和识别的皮质基地厌恶，食欲和关系学习使用事件相关的功能磁共振成像。

Dual process accounts of human affective learning hold that affective learning, the learning of likes and dislikes, and relational learning, the learning of predictive relationships, reflect separate learning mechanisms. Affective learning, for instance, is said not to extinguish, a claim that has far reaching consequences for the design of behaviourally based treatments of anxiety. The project will test this and other predictions of dual process accounts. Moreover, it will extent the experimental analysis of affective learning to the acquisition of likes and identify the cortical bases for aversive, appetitive, and relational learning using event related functional magnetic resonance imaging.