Appetitive Behavior
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

A neural circuit mechanism integrating motivational state with memory expression in Drosophila.

14 Oct 2009 Behavioral expression of food-associated memory in fruit flies is constrained by satiety and promoted by hunger, suggesting an influence of motivational state. Here, we identify a neural mechanism that integrates the internal state of hunger and ... Read more...

The convergence of information about rewarding and aversive stimuli in single neurons.

14 Sep 2009 Neuroscientists, psychologists, clinicians, and economists have long been interested in how individuals weigh information about potential rewarding and aversive stimuli to make decisions and to regulate their emotions. However, we know relatively ... Read more...

Sensitivity of host-seeking nymphal lone star ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) to immersion in heated water.

30 Aug 2009 Host-seeking nymphal Amblyomma americanum (L.) (Acari: Ixodidae) were placed into heated water, and their survival or their torpidity was recorded as a function of exposure time. Exposures were determined that either kill the nymphs or affect their ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Appetitive Behavior'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A neural circuit mechanism integrating motivational state with memory expression in Drosophila. 14 Oct 2009
• The convergence of information about rewarding and aversive stimuli in single neurons. 14 Sep 2009
• Sensitivity of host-seeking nymphal lone star ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) to immersion in heated water. 30 Aug 2009
• Bloodmeal mass and oviparity mediate host avidity and DEET repellency in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). 30 Aug 2009
• Changes in the sensitivity to appetitive and aversive arousal across adulthood. 30 Aug 2009
• Roles of octopaminergic and dopaminergic neurons in appetitive and aversive memory recall in an insect. 2 Aug 2009
• Appetitive motivational experience during adolescence results in enhanced alcohol consumption during adulthood. 30 Jul 2009
• Effects of free food deliveries and temporal contiguity on choice under concurrent-chain schedules. 30 Jul 2009
• Of mice (Mus musculus) and toddlers (Homo sapiens): evidence for species-general spatial reorientation. 30 Jul 2009
• Inferential reasoning and modality dependent discrimination learning in olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis). 30 Jul 2009
• The performance of bonobos (Pan paniscus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in two versions of an object-choice task. 30 Jul 2009
• The development of caching and object permanence in Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica): which emerges first? 30 Jul 2009
• Spatial memory recall in the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). 30 Jul 2009
• Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) spontaneously take turns in a reciprocal cooperation task? 30 Jul 2009
• Cooperatively breeding cottontop tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) do not donate rewards to their long-term mates. 30 Jul 2009
• Social effects on spatial choice in the radial arm maze. 30 Jul 2009
• Timing with opportunity cost: concurrent schedules of reinforcement improve peak timing. 30 Jul 2009
• Pheromone-induced olfactory memory in newborn rabbits: Involvement of consolidation and reconsolidation processes. 20 Jul 2009
• The cry embedded within the purr. 12 Jul 2009
• Effects of honeydew-producing hemipteran denial on local argentine ant distribution and boric acid bait performance. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Appetitive Behavior'

Definition: Animal searching behavior. The variable introductory phase of an instinctive behavior pattern or sequence, e.g., looking for food, or sequential courtship patterns prior to mating.

Descriptor UI: D001070

Alternative terms: Appetitive Behavior; Appetitive Behaviors; Behavior, Appetitive; Behaviors, Appetitive; Searching Behavior; Behavior, Searching; Behaviors, Searching; Searching Behaviors;

Related Mesh Headings: Ceremonial Behavior;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.145.113.111;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: usually animal; introduct phase of instinctive behav; nothing to do with APPETITE, the desire for food