Attribution and expression of incentive salience are differentially signaled by ultrasonic vocalizations in rats.

During Pavlovian incentive learning, the affective properties of rewards are thought to be transferred to their predicting cues. However, how rewards are represented emotionally in animals is widely unknown. This study sought to determine whether 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in rats may si...

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Main Authors: Juan C Brenes, Rainer K W Schwarting
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4105501?pdf=render