Stimulation of the nucleus accumbens as behavioral reward in awake behaving monkeys

It has been known that monkeys will repeatedly press a bar for electrical stimulation in several different brain structures. We explored the possibility of using electrical stimulation in one such structure, the nucleus accumbens, as a substitute for liquid reward in animals performing a complex tas...

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Main Authors: Heard, Matthew T., Desimone, Robert, Bichot, Narcisse Pascal
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102248
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5938-4227