General and outcome‐specific forms of Pavlovian‐instrumental transfer: the effect of shifts in motivational state and inactivation of the ventral tegmental area

Corbit, Laura H.; Janak, Patricia H.; Balleine, Bernard W.

doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05934.x

General and outcome‐specific forms of Pavlovian‐instrumental transfer: the effect of shifts in motivational state and inactivation of the ventral tegmental area

This study compared the contribution of the general activating and specific cueing properties of Pavlovian stimuli to Pavlovian‐instrumental transfer (PIT) and the role of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) in mediating these effects. In Experiment 1, hungry rats initially received Pavlovian traini…