The role of the nucleus accumbens in instrumental conditioning: Evidence of a functional dissociation between accumbens core and shell

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 3251-3260

  Corbit, Laura H ^a   Muir, Janice L ^b   Balleine, Bernard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency; Core; Devaluation; Incentive; Instrumental conditioning; Nucleus accumbens; Pavlovian conditioning; Pavlovian instrumental transfer; Reward; Shell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SATIETY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0035341447     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-09-03251.2001     Document Type: Article

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