Test of Deutsch's Drive-Decay Theory of Rewarding Self-Stimulation of the Brain

Deutsch's theory of intracranial self-stimulation generates experimental predictions regarding the effects of both free stimulation of the brain and the pre-extinction training procedure on extinction behavior after rewarding stimulation of the brain. The results of one experiment confirmed the...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1963-08, Vol.141 (3583), p.823-824
Main Authors: Pliskoff, Stanley S., Hawkins, T. Daryl
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain - physiology
Electrophysiology
Extinction, Psychological
Hypothalamus
Mental stimulation
Mice
Motivation
Old Medline
Pregnancy
Rats
Reinforcement (Psychology)
Reward
Self Stimulation
Species extinction
Test theory
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Summary:Deutsch's theory of intracranial self-stimulation generates experimental predictions regarding the effects of both free stimulation of the brain and the pre-extinction training procedure on extinction behavior after rewarding stimulation of the brain. The results of one experiment confirmed the prediction regarding free stimulation; the other experiment did not provide the expected result. We concluded that Deutsch's theory, in its present form, is of restricted generality.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.141.3583.823