Like many forms of Pavlovian conditioning, eyelid conditioning displays robust extinction. We used a computer simulation of the cerebellum as a tool to consider the widely accepted view that extinction involves new, inhibitory learning rather than unlearning of acquisition. Previously, this simulation suggested basic mechanistic features of extinction and savings in eyelid conditioning, with pr...

The goal of this chapter is to qualitatively investigate the managerial unlearning process during promotionPromotion from senior managerSenior manager executive officerExecutive officer, based on upper echelons perspectiveUpper perspective and leadership pipeline modelLeadership model, using interview data 46 officersExecutive officer.

Brains are dynamic systems in which learning tends towards isolation by increasing specialization of cognitive skills. Induction of social skills for cooperative behavior requires "unlearning" in social contexts. A hypothesis is proposed by which oxytocin and related neuropeptides play a key role in meltdown of prior learning in preparation for new learning. This has implications for clinical m...

I find introspection to be painful. Looking back, I recall doing little of it before age sixteen. Instead, I mainly did the things that I was instructed to do. I studied hard and performed well in courses and examinations, for no deeper reason than that this was what one was supposed to do. As an adult I have introspected when it has seemed constructive to do so, but I still try not to overdo i...

The goal of this chapter is to propose that widespread evidence of our failure to achieve individual, organizational and social change may be due, in part, to the impact of automated and unconscious knowledge. After a brief review of the results of personal and collective change programs and the accuracy of self-reported change, the discussion turns to an overview of research on the learning, o...

We suggest that any brain-like (artificial neural network based) learning system will need a sleep-like mechanism for consolidating newly learned information if it wishes to cope with the sequential/ongoing learning of significantly new information. We summarise and explore two possible candidates for a computational account of this consolidation process in Hopfield type networks. The "pseudore...

This paper focusses on two popular book projects that sought to communicate Buddhism’s variety and complexity non-specialists. The first emerged from a radio series the author was asked write present for BBC World Service in mid-1990s, entitled Way of Buddha. A followed, published by Oneworld. second an edited also slotted into series, Equinox - Buddhism 5 Minutes. is exercise self-reflexivity,...