| Literature DB >> 19170445 |
Christopher Roman1, Steve Reilly.
Abstract
The present experiment examined the influence of insular cortex (IC) lesions on the intake of a taste stimulus in a consummatory procedure that used morphine as the unconditioned stimulus. In normal rats, morphine caused a rapid reduction in saccharin intake when the taste was novel but not when it was familiar. Irrespective of stimulus novelty, morphine had little influence on the saccharin consumption of IC-lesioned rats. The results are discussed in terms of a lesion-induced disruption of (i) a reward comparison mechanism and (ii) the perception of taste novelty. (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19170445 PMCID: PMC2709771 DOI: 10.1037/a0014308
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Behav Neurosci ISSN: 0735-7044 Impact factor: 1.912