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Science 8 March 1968:
Vol. 159. no. 3819, pp. 1117 - 1119
DOI: 10.1126/science.159.3819.1117
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Lateral Hypothalamus: Food Current Intensity in Maintaining Self-Stimulation of Hunger

Edgar E. Coons 1 and J. A. F. Cruce 1

1 Department of Psychology, New York University, New York 10003

Rats displaying stimulus-bound eating will press bars for currents slightly above eating threshold only when food is near the bar. At higher currents self-stimulation is maintained without food. Such currents may spread to activate consummatory feedback appropriate to the drive elicited; or, for more intensely stimulated drive mechanisms, wider ranges of sensory feedback may be reinforcing.


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