Electrical stimulation of the brain as reinforcement of food consumption in aphagic cats

摘要: Abstract Cats were conditioned to consume food for rewarding electrical stimulation of the brain and then made aphagic by hypothalamic lesions. In subsequent experiments, was found be an effective reinforcer consumption in these animals. context present experiment, this result supports following conclusions regarding syndrome origin: motivational forces play a role behavior animals after lesions; whatever mechanisms are responsible aphagia, they can overriden factors; prior training affect The study also statements involving reinforcing brain: used as reward animals; circuitry underlying physiological, psychological motor phenomena involved is not completely disrupted animal.