Nicotine-evoked conditioned responding is dependent on concentration of sucrose unconditioned stimulus

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 136-139

  Murray, Jennifer E ^a   Penrod, Rachel D ^a   Bevins, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetitive reinforcement; Drug discrimination; Pavlovian conditioning; Response magnitude; Stimulus salience; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; SUCROSE;

ALKALOID; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONDITIONING; DRUG; RODENT; SUCROSE; TOBACCO;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DIETARY SUCROSE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

NICOTIANA TABACUM; RATTUS;

EID: 63349098814     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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