Nucleus Accumbens Neurons Are Innately Tuned for Rewarding and Aversive Taste Stimuli, Encode Their Predictors, and Are Linked to Motor Output

Anatomical evidence of direct projections from the nucleus of the solitary tract to the hypothalamus, amygdala, and other forebrain structures in the rat

Juarez A. Ricardo, Edward T. Koh · Brain Research · 1978 · 1.4K citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

The taste reactivity test. I. Mimetic responses to gustatory stimuli in neurologically normal rats

Harvey J. Grill, Ralph Norgren · Brain Research · 1978 · 1.2K citations

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Physiology +16

Preferential activation of midbrain dopamine neurons by appetitive rather than aversive stimuli

Jacques Mirenowicz, Wolfram Schultz · Nature · 1996 · 831 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +16

Dopamine Operates as a Subsecond Modulator of Food Seeking

Mitchell F. Roitman, Garret D. Stuber, Paul E. M. Phillips et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2004 · 717 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Expectation of reward modulates cognitive signals in the basal ganglia

Reiko Kawagoe, Yoriko Takikawa, Okihide Hikosaka · Nature Neuroscience · 1998 · 642 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +14