Motivated behavior has long been studied by psychologists, ethologists, and
neuroscientists. To date, many scientists agree with the view that cue and reward attraction …

A fundamental and frequently overlooked aspect of animal learning is its reliance on
compatibility between the learning rules used and the attentional and motivational …

Pavlovian learning processes can render cues and contexts associated with drug-taking
experiences into powerful motivators, such that exposure to such stimuli can elicit drug …

There is an ongoing debate about whether pain can be classically conditioned, but
surprisingly, evidence is scarce. Here, we report 3 experiments investigating this idea. In a …

Short Abstract Here, we present a protocol to elicit Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior
in rats. This procedure can be used to measure individual differences in the tendency to …

Two experiments determined the effect of interference training on subsequent spatial
learning in a Morris water maze. Rats first learned that a platform was located in a quadrant …

A central question in Pavlovian conditioning concerns the critical conditions that drive the
acquisition and maintenance of the stimulus-outcome association. The spatial relationship …

Individual variation in the attribution of motivational salience to reward‐related cues is
believed to underlie addiction vulnerability. Pavlovian conditioned approach measures …

Data-driven models of concepts are gaining popularity in Psychology and Cognitive
Science. Distributional semantic models represent word meanings as abstract word co …

Domesticated quail (Coturnix japonica) received a discrete conditioned stimulus (CS) at one
end of the experimental chamber paired with the opportunity to copulate with a female quail …