Cue-Evoked Firing of Nucleus Accumbens Neurons Encodes Motivational Significance during a Discriminative Stimulus Task

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1840-1865

  Nicola, Saleem M ^a   Yun, Irene A ^b   Wakabayashi, Ken T ^a   Fields, Howard L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; HYPOTHESIS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542615156     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00657.2003     Document Type: Article

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