Stress enhances the response to reward reduction but not food-motivated responding

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 777-782

  Bowers, Wayne J ^a   Attias, Edna ^b   Amit, Zalman ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aversive; Foot shock; Incentive contrast; Motivation; Reinforcement; Reward reduction; Runway; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SHOCK; STRESS;

EID: 0032732456     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(99)00129-8     Document Type: Article

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