Revonsuo (2000) cites studies that demonstrated how mental imagery can improve the neural mechanisms that generate actual actions (Decety, 1996), and argues that such virtual reality practice and mental training during dreams constitute realistic simulations in a safe environment that can enhance perceptual and motor skills and sharpen real life responses to similar threats should they occur. ... They also suggest that amygdalocortical network may be primed to perform more immediate and appropriate emotional evaluation of potential danger. ... The incorporation interacts with a network of exis...

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Avoidance of Path Dependence Path dependence is a characteristic of neural networks (both artificial and biological) whereby they are strongly dependent on their learning history, and initial starting point, in attaining a desirable solution to a problem. ...

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