Firing of Nucleus Accumbens Neurons during the Consummatory Phase of a Discriminative Stimulus Task Depends on Previous Reward Predictive Cues

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1866-1882

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542720455     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00658.2003     Document Type: Article

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