Lateral Hypothalamus: Food Current Intensity in Maintaining Self-Stimulation of Hunger
- 8 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 159 (3819) , 1117-1119
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.159.3819.1117
Abstract
Rats displaying stimulus-bound eating will press bars for currents slightly above eating threshold only when food is near the bar. At higher currents self-stimulation is maintained without food. Such currents may spread to activate consummatory feedback appropriate to the drive elicited; or, for more intensely stimulated drive mechanisms, wider ranges of sensory feedback may be reinforcing.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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