The attribution of incentive salience to Pavlovian alcohol cues: a shift from goal-tracking to sign-tracking

Environmental stimuli that are reliably paired with alcohol may acquire incentive salience, a property that can operate in the use and abuse of alcohol. Here we investigated the incentive salience of Pavlovian alcohol cues using a preclinical animal model. Male, Long-Evans rats (Harlan) with unrestr...

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Main Authors: Chandra S. Srey, Jean-Marie N. Maddux, Nadia eChaudhri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00054/full