Pavlovian to Instrumental Transfer Responses Do Not Correlate With Addiction-Like Behavior in Rats

Pavlovian learning plays a prominent role in the etiology of addiction. The influence of Pavlovian conditioning on the expression of an instrumental response can be studied using the Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) paradigm. This paradigm consists of independent Pavlovian conditioning and i...

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Main Authors: Tatiane T. Takahashi, Valentina Vengeliene, Thomas Enkel, Sara Reithofer, Rainer Spanagel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00129/full