Reward-predictive cues elicit excessive reward seeking in adolescent rats

Impulsive behavior during adolescence may stem from developmental imbalances between motivational and cognitive-control systems, producing greater urges to pursue reward and weakened capacities to inhibit such actions. Here, we developed a Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT) protocol to assay rats...

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Main Authors: Andrew T. Marshall, Christy N. Munson, Nigel T. Maidment, Sean B. Ostlund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929320300864