Frontostriatal Maturation Predicts Cognitive Control Failure to Appetitive Cues in Adolescents [PDF]
, 2011 Adolescent risk-taking is a public health issue that increases the odds of poor lifetime outcomes. One factor thought to influence adolescents' propensity for risk-taking is an enhanced sensitivity to appetitive cues, relative to an immature capacity to ...
B. J. Casey +7 more
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Complexity and competition in appetitive and aversive neural circuits
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2012 Decision-making often involves using sensory cues to predict possible rewarding or punishing reinforcement outcomes before selecting a course of action.
Crista L. Barberini +8 more
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Cooperation in the iterated prisoner's dilemma is learned by operant conditioning mechanisms [PDF]
, 2004 The prisoner's dilemma (PD) is the leading metaphor for the evolution of cooperative behavior in populations of selfish agents. Although cooperation in the iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD) has been studied for over twenty years, most of this research ...
Gutnisky, D. A. +1 more
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Get in my belly: food preferences trigger approach and avoidant postural asymmetries. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Appetitive motivational states are fundamental neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying healthy and abnormal eating behavior, though their dynamic influence on food-related behavior is unknown.
Tad T Brunyé +5 more
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When wanting to change is not enough: automatic appetitive processes moderate the effects of a brief alcohol intervention in hazardous-drinking college students. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Research indicates that brief motivational interventions are efficacious treatments for hazardous drinking. Little is known, however, about the psychological processes that may moderate intervention success.
Ostafin, Brian D., Palfai, Tibor P.
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Memory Performance for Everyday Motivational and Neutral Objects Is Dissociable from Attention [PDF]
, 2017 Episodic memory is typically better for items coupled with monetary reward or punishment during encoding. It is yet unclear whether memory is also enhanced for everyday objects with appetitive or aversive values learned through a lifetime of experience ...
Schomaker, Judith, Wittmann, Bianca C.
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eLife, 2016 Conflicting evidence exists regarding the role of infralimbic cortex (IL) in the environmental control of appetitive behavior. Inhibition of IL, irrespective of its intrinsic neural activity, attenuates not only the ability of environmental cues ...
Nobuyoshi Suto +9 more
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Extinction of cue-evoked food seeking recruits a GABAergic interneuron ensemble in the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex of mice [PDF]
, 2020 Animals must quickly adapt food-seeking strategies to locate nutrient sources in dynamically changing environments. Learned associations between food and environmental cues that predict its availability promote food-seeking behaviors.
Brebner, Leonie S +9 more
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Assessing and Enhancing the Welfare of Animals with Equivocal and Reliable Cues
Animals, 2019 The actions of human caretakers strongly influence animals living under human care. Here, we consider how intentional and unintentional signals provided by caretakers can inform our assessment of animals’ well-being as well as help to support it ...
Jason V. Watters, Bethany L. Krebs
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Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2015 Introduction: The Power of Food Scale measures appetite for, rather than consumption of, palatable foods - a construct frequently designated as hedonic hunger.
Gabriela Ribeiro +6 more
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