Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210102343

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Extinction of conditioned responding: Learning from the evidence of absence. When animals or people learn that a cue, or their own action, is followed by something important, they respond in anticipation of the outcome or to control it. This project investigates how these learned responses can be reduced (“extinguished”) when the conditions that established them change. It will help solve 2 outstanding theoretical and practical problems: what makes some learned behaviours resistant to extinction or prone to relapse after being extinguished? The project will identify the factors that are most directly responsible for resistance and relapse. This could pave the way to finding solutions for the major problems that bedevil therapies designed to treat human behavioural disorders, such as addictions, gambling, and anxiety

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2021

End Date: 31-12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $590,356.00

Funder: Australian Research Council