Alcohol-paired contextual cues produce an immediate and selective loss of goal-directed action in rats

Alcohol-paired contextual cues produce an immediate and selective loss of goal-directed action in rats

We assessed whether the presence of contextual cues paired with alcohol would disrupt rats’ capacity to express appropriate goal-directed action control. Rats were first given differential context conditioning such that one set of contextual cues was paired with the injection of ethanol an...

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Main Authors: Sean B Ostlund, Nigel T Maidment, Bernard W Balleine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Subjects:
Decision Making
Addiction
choice
habit
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2010.00019/full

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