Name: Biological Determinants of Reinforcement:Biological Determinates of Reinforcement
ISBN: 9781315802329

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Biological Determinants of Reinforcement

ABSTRACT

This seventh volume, divided into four parts, addresses the biological determinates of reinforcement and memory. Covers topics in electrical brain stimulation, drugs and reinforcement, and cellular mechanisms.

part I

Electrical Brain Stimulation

chapter 1|30 pages

Determining the Quantitative Characteristics of a Reward Pathway

chapter 2|27 pages

The Reward Summation Function in Hypothalamic Self-Stimulation

chapter 3|27 pages

Quantitative Characteristics of the Directly Stimulated Neurons Subserving Self-Stimulation of the Medial Forebrain Bundle: Psychophysical Inference and Electrophysiological Measurement

chapter 4|16 pages

Cholinergic Involvement in Hypothalamic and Midbrain Rewarding Brain Stimulation

chapter 5|17 pages

Biological Basis of the Remembered Time of Reinforcement

part II

Learning, Behavior, and Reinforcement

chapter 6|18 pages

Internal Clock and Reward Pathways Share Physiologically Similar Information-Processing Stages

chapter 7|18 pages

Separate Neurochemical Substrates for Cocaine and Heroin Reinforcement

part III

Drugs and Reinforcement

chapter 8|26 pages

How Drugs Affect Cells and Reinforcement Affects Behavior: Formal Analogies

chapter 9|24 pages

Reinforcers and Sequential Choice: “Win—Stay” and the Role of Dopamine in Reinforcement

part IV

Cellular Mechanisms

chapter 10|42 pages

Causal Detection in a Mollusc: Cellular Mechanisms of Predictive Coding, Associative Learning, and Memory

chapter 11|16 pages

Operant Conditioning of Individual Neurons

Biological Determinants of Reinforcement