How can we boost the ability to learn about safety? When we amplify the salience of stimuli that signal safety, we improve their effectiveness. But that’s not all - we also improve discrimination of new non-threatening stimuli, and increase exploration of new environments, thereby decreasing generalized fear.
Our new paper is out showing these positive behavioral effects of Salient Safety training in the Safety issue of Behavioural Brain Research.
Nahmoud I., Ganay Vasquez J., Cho H., Dennis-Tiwary T., Likhtik E. (2020) Salient safety conditioning improves novel discrimination learning. Behav Brain Res 397: 112907.