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The Journal of Neuroscience, November 1, 2000, 20(21):8122-8130
Intra-Accumbens Amphetamine Increases the Conditioned Incentive
Salience of Sucrose Reward: Enhancement of Reward "Wanting" without
Enhanced "Liking" or Response Reinforcement
Cindy L.
Wyvell and
Kent C.
Berridge
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan 48109
Amphetamine microinjection into the nucleus accumbens shell
enhanced the ability of a Pavlovian reward cue to trigger increased instrumental performance for sucrose reward in a pure conditioned incentive paradigm. Rats were first trained to press one of two levers
to obtain sucrose pellets. They were separately conditioned to
associate a Pavlovian cue (30 sec light) with free sucrose pellets. On
test days, the rats received bilateral microinjection of
intra-accumbens vehicle or amphetamine (0.0, 2.0, 10.0, or 20.0 µg/0.5 µl), and lever pressing was tested in the absence of any
reinforcement contingency, while the Pavlovian cue alone was freely
presented at intervals throughout the session. Amphetamine microinjection selectively potentiated the cue-elicited increase in
sucrose-associated lever pressing, although instrumental responding was
not reinforced by either sucrose or the cue during the test. Intra-accumbens amphetamine can therefore potentiate cue-triggered incentive motivation for reward in the absence of primary or secondary reinforcement. Using the taste reactivity measure of hedonic impact, it
was shown that intra-accumbens amphetamine failed to increase positive
hedonic reaction patterns elicited by sucrose (i.e., sucrose
"liking") at doses that effectively increase sucrose "wanting." We conclude that nucleus accumbens dopamine specifically mediates the
ability of reward cues to trigger "wanting" (incentive
salience) for their associated rewards, independent of both hedonic
impact and response reinforcement.
Key words:
dopamine; hedonia; instrumental; learning; palatability; motivation, ventral striatum; mesolimbic; limbic; shell; addiction; taste reactivity; reward; conditioned stimulus; incentive; reinforcement; Pavlovian; incentive salience
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