Administration of corticosterone after the first downshift trial enhances consummatory successive negative contrast

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 371-376

  Bentosela, Mariana ^a   Ruetti, Eliana ^a,b   Muzio, Rubén N ^b   Mustaca, Alba E ^a   Papini, Mauricio R ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

^b INST DE BIOL Y MED EXPERIMENTAL   (Argentina)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aversive memory; Corticosterone; Frustration; Incentive contrast; Rats

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACILITATION; FRUSTRATION; HYPOTHESIS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REWARD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33744467711     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.2.371     Document Type: Article

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