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SUBMITTER: Peck CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3596258 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peck Christopher J CJ Lau Brian B Salzman C Daniel CD
Nature neuroscience 20130203 3
A stimulus predicting reinforcement can trigger emotional responses, such as arousal, and cognitive ones, such as increased attention toward the stimulus. Neuroscientists have long appreciated that the amygdala mediates spatially nonspecific emotional responses, but it remains unclear whether the amygdala links motivational and spatial representations. To test whether amygdala neurons encode spatial and motivational information, we presented reward-predictive cues in different spatial configurat ...[more]