Stressful Events as Teaching Signals for the Brain

Publication date: Available online 11 April 2018
Source:Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Author(s): Sabrina Trapp, John P. O'Doherty, Lars Schwabe
Stressful events are better remembered than mundane events. We explain this advantage by reconceptualizing stress in terms of cumulative prediction errors (PEs) that promote rapid learning of events. This proposal integrates the effects of stress on perception and memory, and provides exciting new perspectives for research on stress and cognition.



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