TABLE 1.

Brief overview summarizing similarities and differences between extinction and reconsolidation.

Finding	Extinction	Reconsolidation
Susceptible to spontaneous recovery	Yes	No
Susceptible to renewal	Yes	No
Susceptible to reinstatement	Yes	No
Observed after many trials	Yes	No
Observed after few trials	No	Yes
Need prediction error	Yes	Yes
Produces changes in synaptic GluA2 in BLA	No	Yes
Requires protein synthesis	Yes	Yes

While these represent the most commonly observed findings, some exceptions exist; see text for details.