The relationship between stimulation voltage and rate of hypothalamic self-stimulation in the rat.
- 1 January 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 51 (2), 193-198
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0048362
Abstract
Using a technique similar to the Olds and Milner one, rats stimulated themselves electrically in the ventromedial region of the anterior hypothalamus. It was found that as stimulation voltage was increased, the rate of self-stimulation increased to a maximum. Further increases in voltage produced a decline in stimulation rats with a pattern of momentary withdrawal from the lever. Variations in hunger were not systematically related to behavior changes.Keywords
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