Reinforcement in an in vitro analog of appetitive classical conditioning of feeding behavior in Aplysia: Blockade by a dopamine antagonist

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 216-220

  Reyes, Fredy D ^a   Mozzachiodi, Riccardo ^a   Baxter, Douglas A ^a   Byrne, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; METHYLERGOMETRINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APLYSIA; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ESOPHAGUS; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; METHYLERGONOVINE; NEURONS; OXYTOCICS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 21844451359     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.92905     Document Type: Article

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