ABSTRACT
A paramount goal of neuroscience is the discovery of how the brain stores experience. At one time this objective seemed insurmountable. Yet, several chapters in this volume document how close Richard Thompson and his students have gotten to achieving this goal using the Pavlovian eyeblink preparation. I believe there are certain features of Dr. Thompson's approach that render the problem tractable. In this way Dr. Thompson's work provides a theoretical road map for unraveling the mysteries of how other sorts of memory are stored. In the first part of this chapter I describe what I believe are key features of the approach that make it so profitable. The second part of this chapter shows how these features may be applied to another type of memory, fear. I will try to highlight both the similarities and differences with the eyeblink system and attempt to integrate emotional and motor learning into a common conceptual framework.
