Appetitive Pavlovian-instrumental Transfer: A review

Reward-related cues are an important part of our daily life as they often influence and guide our actions. This paper reviews one of the experimental paradigms used to study the effects of cues, the Pavlovian to Instrumental Transfer paradigm. In this paradigm, cues associated with rewards through Pavlovian conditioning alter motivation and choice of instrumental actions. The first transfer experiments date back to the 1940s, but only in the last decade has it been fully recognised that there are two types of transfer, specific and general. This paper presents a systematic review of both the neural substrates and the behavioral factors affecting both types of transfer. It also examines the recent application of the paradigm to study the effect of cues on human participants, both in normal and pathological conditions, and the interactions of transfer with drugs of abuse. Finally, the paper analyses the theoretical aspects of transfer to build an overall picture of the phenomenon, from early theories to recent hierarchical accounts. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Publication type: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Cartoni, Emilio
Balleine, Bernard
Baldassarre, Gianluca
Publisher: 
Pergamon., New York, Stati Uniti d'America
Source: 
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 71 (2016): 829–848. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.09.020
info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Cartoni, Emilio; Balleine, Bernard; Baldassarre, Gianluca/titolo:Appetitive Pavlovian-instrumental Transfer: A review/doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.09.020/rivista:Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews/anno:2016/pagina_da:829/pag
Date: 
2016
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/387922
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.09.020
info:doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.09.020
Language: 
Eng
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