Roles of nucleus accumbens and basolateral amygdala in autoshaped lever pressing

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 441-451

  Chang, Stephen E ^a   Wheeler, Daniel S ^a,b   Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Amygdala; Autoshaping; Incentive salience; Sign tracking

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; MALE; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD;

EID: 84861186843     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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