Talk:Fear conditioning

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[edit] Merge with classical conditioning

I think this article and eyeblink conditioning being special cases of classical conditioning can be merged into classical conditioning.

Fear conditioning is a massive area of research with multiple applications and a vast literature. What determines whether something gets its own page? Will you put blocking into classical conditioning? Overshadowing? Sensory preconditioning? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.173.38.112 (talk) 15:35, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

The suggestion of merge was given becuase the article is quite short and in an earlier version, it was stated as a special case of classical conditioning, which is true. It would be nice that general articles such as classical conditioning give a flavor of what is all involved within its scope and direct readers to appropriate special articles if they be interested in reading further. Kpmiyapuram 15:52, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I am not an expert on this, but my feeling was that fear conditioning was clearly "separable" from other kinds of classical conditioning. I thought that it had been shown to have a separate neural substrate compared to some other kinds of classical conditioning (for example, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/100/22/13087?ck=nck). If indeed it is a separate phenomena, then it should have its own page, rather than being part of the page on classical conditioning. Bayle Shanks 04:08, 10 August 2007 (UTC)