Haloperidol does not affect motivational processes in an operant runway model of food-seeking behavior.
K McFarland, A Ettenberg - Behavioral neuroscience, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
K McFarland, A Ettenberg
Behavioral neuroscience, 1998•psycnet.apa.orgThe present experiment examined the effects of dopamine receptor antagonism on subjects'
motivation to seek food. Rats were trained to discriminate between 2 olfactory cues
predicting either the presence (S+) or absence (S−) of food reinforcement in the goal box of
a straight-arm runway. Rats learned to traverse the alley quickly when presented with the S+
and much more slowly when presented with the S−. Haloperidol pretreatment was unable to
alter this pattern of behavior (ie, rats still ran quickly when presented with the scent that …
motivation to seek food. Rats were trained to discriminate between 2 olfactory cues
predicting either the presence (S+) or absence (S−) of food reinforcement in the goal box of
a straight-arm runway. Rats learned to traverse the alley quickly when presented with the S+
and much more slowly when presented with the S−. Haloperidol pretreatment was unable to
alter this pattern of behavior (ie, rats still ran quickly when presented with the scent that …
Abstract
The present experiment examined the effects of dopamine receptor antagonism on subjects' motivation to seek food. Rats were trained to discriminate between 2 olfactory cues predicting either the presence (S+) or absence (S−) of food reinforcement in the goal box of a straight-arm runway. Rats learned to traverse the alley quickly when presented with the S+ and much more slowly when presented with the S−. Haloperidol pretreatment was unable to alter this pattern of behavior (ie, rats still ran quickly when presented with the scent that predicted food availability). Thus, it seems that the same dopamine antagonist treatments that have been shown to disrupt food reinforcement do not prevent the food-seeking behavior produced by presentation of food-predictive cues.
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