Adrenalectomy eliminates the extinction spike in autoshaping with rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 543-547

  Thomas, Brian L ^a   Papini, Mauricio R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Arousal; Corticosterone; Extinction spike; Rats; Schedule induced polydipsia; Surprising nonreward; Trial spacing effect

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FLUID INTAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE;

EID: 0035085990     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00448-0     Document Type: Article

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