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Lateral hypothalamus: food current intensity in maintaining self-stimulation of hunger

E E Coons et al. Science. 1968.

Abstract

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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