Evaluating the rewarding nature of social interactions in laboratory animals

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 444-458

  Trezza, Viviana ^a,c   Campolongo, Patrizia ^d   Vanderschuren, Louk J M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Maternal behavior; Operant behavior; Place conditioning; Reward; Sexual behavior; Social play

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENOTYPE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LIFESPAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLACE PREFERENCE; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RATS; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80052766834     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2011.05.007     Document Type: Review

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