Blocking of conditioning to a cocaine-paired stimulus: Testing the hypothesis that cocaine perpetually produces a signal of larger-than-expected reward

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 774-777

  Panlilio, Leigh V ^a   Thorndike, Eric B ^a   Schindler, Charles W ^a  

^a Intramural Research Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Lever press; Nose poke response; Rat; Self administration

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 34249744700     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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