The effect of food and water deprivation upon intracranial self-stimulation.

Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area and other regions of rat brain.

Peter Milner · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1954 · 3.1K citations

Positive Reinforcement, Neurobiological Mechanism, Electrical Stimulation +12

Subcortical mechanisms in emotional behavior: affective changes following septal forebrain lesions in the albino rat.

Joseph V. Brady, Walle J. H. Nauta · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1953 · 592 citations

Brain Mechanism, Affective Neuroscience, Subcortical Mechanisms +21

Brief, Noninjurious Electric Waveform for Stimulation of the Brain

John C. Lilly, John R. Hughes, Ellsworth C. Alvord et al. · Science · 1955 · 281 citations

Stimulation Device, Neurophysiology, Medicine +9

Subcortical mechanisms in emotional behavior: the duration of affective changes following septal and habenular lesions in the albino rat.

Joseph V. Brady, Walle J. H. Nauta · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1955 · 218 citations

Neurobiological Mechanism, Emotional Behavior, Reward Processing +12

Permanent implantation of multilead electrodes in the brain.

José M. R. Delgado · PubMed · 1952 · 71 citations

Stimulation Device, Neurophysiology, Permanent Implantation +6