Quantifying Individual Variation in the Propensity to Attribute Incentive Salience to Reward Cues

If reward-associated cues acquire the properties of incentive stimuli they can come to powerfully control behavior, and potentially promote maladaptive behavior. Pavlovian incentive stimuli are defined as stimuli that have three fundamental properties: they are attractive, they are themselves desire...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Meyer, Paul J., Lovic, Vedran, Saunders, Benjamin T., Yager, Lindsay M., Flagel, Shelly B., Morrow, Jonathan D., Robinson, Terry E.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3382216/