Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors [PDF]
Neuron, 2017 Basolateral amygdala (BLA) principal cells are capable of driving and antagonizing behaviors of opposing valence. BLA neurons project to the central amygdala (CeA), which also participates in negative and positive behaviors. However, the CeA has primarily been studied as the site for negative behaviors, and the causal role for CeA circuits underlying ...
Shruti Muralidhar +5 more
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Drug Predictive Cues Activate Aversion-Sensitive Striatal Neurons That Encode Drug Seeking [PDF]
, 2015 Drug-associated cues have profound effects on an addict’s emotional state and drug-seeking behavior. Although this influence must involve the motivational neural system that initiates and encodes the drug-seeking act, surprisingly little is known about ...
Dupont, Matthew J. +5 more
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Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2014 Decision-making is motivated by the possibility of obtaining reward and/or avoiding punishment. Though many have investigated behavior associated with appetitive or aversive outcomes, few have examined behaviors that rely on both.
Gregory B Bissonette +4 more
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THE BASIS OF SUPERSTITIOUS BEHAVIOR: CHANCE CONTINGENCY, STIMULUS SUBSTITUTION, OR APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR? [PDF]
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1985 This research examined three explanations for the “superstitious” behavior of pigeons under frequent fixed‐time delivery of food: accidental response‐reward contingency, stimulus substitution, and elicited species‐typical appetitive behavior. The behavior observed in these studies consisted of occasional postfood locomotion away from the food hopper ...
Gary A. Lucas, William Timberlake
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Simulating Effects of Learning and Lesions with a Model of Intrinsic and Synaptically Gated Responses of Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons [PDF]
, 2006 The giant cholinergic interneurons of the striatum are tonically active neurons (TANs) that respond with characteristic pauses to novel events and to appetitive and aversive conditioned stimuli.
Bullock, Daniel, Tan, Can Ozan
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Pharyngeal neuronal mechanisms governing sour taste perception in Drosophila melanogaster
eLifeSour taste, which is elicited by low pH, may serve to help animals distinguish appetitive from potentially harmful food sources. In all species studied to date, the attractiveness of oral acids is contingent on concentration.
Bhanu Shrestha +3 more
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Appetitive reversal learning differences of two honey bee subspecies with different foraging behaviors [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 We aimed to examine mechanistically the observed foraging differences across two honey bee, Apis mellifera, subspecies using the proboscis extension response assay.
Eddie Pérez Claudio +7 more
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Pavlovian Processes in Consumer Choice: The Physical Presence of a Good Increases Willingness-to-Pay [PDF]
, 2010 This paper describes a series of laboratory experiments studying whether the form in which items are displayed at the time of decision affects the dollar value that subjects place on them. Using a Becker-DeGroot auction under three different conditions —
Bushong, Benjamin +3 more
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The amygdala: securing pleasure and avoiding pain
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013 The amygdala has traditionally been associated with fear, mediating the impact of negative emotions on memory. However, this view does not fully encapsulate the function of the amygdala, nor the impact that processing in this structure has on the ...
Anushka B P Fernando +2 more
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Serotonergic amplification of odor-evoked neural responses maps onto flexible behavioral outcomes
eLifeBehavioral responses to many odorants are not fixed but are flexible, varying based on organismal needs. How such variations arise and the role of various neuromodulators in achieving flexible neural-to-behavioral mapping is not fully understood. In this
Yelyzaveta Bessonova, Baranidharan Raman
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