Re-Consolidation of the Target Learning

When an implicit emotional learning is re-triggered and brought into the front of awareness, well, that in itself doesn't launch the re-consolidation process. It's the next step, the second step, that does the remarkable neurological process. What happens is this. When there is this mismatch experience or prediction error experience where the target learning is activated and then something happens that this confirms what that learning knows or expects,. Very rapidly, the synapses that encode the target learning unlock.