50-kHz chirping (laughter?) in response to conditioned and unconditioned tickle-induced reward in rats: Effects of social housing and genetic variables

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-38

  Panksepp, Jaak ^a   Burgdorf, Jeffrey ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetitive motivation; Classical conditioning; Instrumental conditioning; Laughter; Reinforcement; Reward; Tickling; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CYPROHEPTADINE; DIZOCILPINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GLUTAMIC ACID ANTAGONIST; HALOPERIDOL; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; QUIPAZINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXTINCTION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; LAUGHTER; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033826201     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00238-2     Document Type: Article

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