Variation in the form of Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior among outbred male Sprague-Dawley rats from different vendors and colonies: sign-tracking vs. goal-tracking.

Even when trained under exactly the same conditions outbred male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats vary in the form of the Pavlovian conditioned approach response (CR) they acquire. The form of the CR (i.e. sign-tracking vs. goal-tracking) predicts to what degree individuals attribute incentive salience to c...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Christopher J Fitzpatrick, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Elizabeth S Cogan, Lindsay M Yager, Paul J Meyer, Vedran Lovic, Benjamin T Saunders, Clarissa C Parker, Natalia M Gonzales, Emmanuel Aryee, Shelly B Flagel, Abraham A Palmer, Terry E Robinson, Jonathan D Morrow
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3787975?pdf=render