Environmental enrichment reduces attribution of incentive salience to a food-associated stimulus

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 331-334

  Beckmann, Joshua S ^a   Bardo, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoshaping; Enrichment; Goal tracking; Incentive salience; Sign tracking

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FOOD; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INCENTIVE SALIENCE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONED APPROACH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REARING; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD;

EID: 80054835626     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.09.021     Document Type: Article

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