Motivational states influence effort-based decision making in rats: The role of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-84

  Mai, Bettina ^a   Sommer, Susanne ^a   Hauber, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

6 Hydroxydopamine; Effort based decision making; Motivational states; Nucleus accumbens; Rat

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DOPAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DECISION MAKING; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG EFFECT; INJURY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADRENERGIC AGENTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE; FASTING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXIDOPAMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84857179569     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-011-0068-4     Document Type: Article

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