Acquisition and Responding for Conditioned Reinforcement in the Mouse: Effects of Methylphenidate, and the Role of the Dopamine Transporter

This work characterized the ability of mice to respond for conditioned reinforcement, a phenomenon that can be used to investigate neural substrates of incentive learning. In both C57Bl/6 and CD1 mice, a reward-associated stimulus acted as a conditioned reinforcer (CR). Responding was stable over mu...

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Main Author: Browne, James Donald Caleb
Other Authors: Fletcher, Paul J.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33367