Spontaneous recovery is a phenomenon of learning and memory first identified and named by Ivan Pavlov in his studies of classical conditioning, referring to the reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of time has passed without further exposure to the conditioning procedure. The effect can be observed across a range of contexts, and researchers have also taken particular interest in a parallel form of it involving the apparent recovery of memories that had seemingly been forgotten.
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Core ClaimSpontaneous recovery is a phenomenon of learning and memory that refers to the re emergence of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a delay. 1 First Described Year Classification
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Documented spontaneous recovery in his classical conditioning experiments, when an extinguished conditioned response reappeared after a rest period.
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This phenomenon was first coined and described by Ivan Pavlov in his studies of classical (Pavlovian) conditioning. In that context, it refers to the re-emergence of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a delay.
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Spontaneous recovery is a medical phenomenon of learning and memory.
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