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The behavior of animals self-injecting themselves with a highly appetitive solution was strikingly similar to behavior of animals responding for ESB. Fast extinction, priming, and extinction without responding were demonstrated. ESB data was best simulated by intraoral self-injection animals on an ad lib food schedule whose behavior was maintained by the incentive quality of the food reward.
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1. This research was supported by USPHS Grant No. MH 13155-01 awarded to the second author.
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Panksepp, J., Trowill, J.A. Intraoral self injection: II. The simulation of self-stimulation phenomena with a conventional reward. Psychon Sci 9, 407–408 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330869
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