Responding maintained by primary reinforcing visual stimuli is increased by nicotine administration in rats

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-99

  Raiff, Bethany R ^a   Dallery, Jesse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed ratio; Lever training; Motivating establishing operation; Nicotine; Rats; Reinforcer enhancer; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; RODENT; TRAINING; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FOOD; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; GANGLIONIC STIMULANTS; LIGHTING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NICOTINE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 67650161847     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.03.013     Document Type: Article

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