TY - JOUR
T1 - Orbitofrontal lesions impair use of cue-outcome associations in a devaluation task
AU - Pickens, Charles L.
AU - Saddoris, Michael P.
AU - Gallagher, Michela
AU - Holland, Peter C.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2005/2
Y1 - 2005/2
N2 - The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been implicated in the use of outcome expectancies to guide behavior. The present study used a devaluation task to examine this function. Rats first received light-food pairings followed by food-toxin pairings designed to devalue the food. After either excitotoxic or sham OFC lesions, responding to the light was reassessed. Sham-lesioned rats showed reduced responding to the light relative to behavioral controls, which had received food and toxin unpaired. In contrast, OFC-lesioned rats showed no such reductions. Combined with previous data (C. L. Pickens, M. P. Saddoris, B. Setlow, M. Gallagher, P. C. Holland, & G. Schoenbaum, 2003), these results indicate that the OFC is critical for the maintenance of information about the current incentive value of reinforcers or the use of that information to guide behavior.
AB - The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been implicated in the use of outcome expectancies to guide behavior. The present study used a devaluation task to examine this function. Rats first received light-food pairings followed by food-toxin pairings designed to devalue the food. After either excitotoxic or sham OFC lesions, responding to the light was reassessed. Sham-lesioned rats showed reduced responding to the light relative to behavioral controls, which had received food and toxin unpaired. In contrast, OFC-lesioned rats showed no such reductions. Combined with previous data (C. L. Pickens, M. P. Saddoris, B. Setlow, M. Gallagher, P. C. Holland, & G. Schoenbaum, 2003), these results indicate that the OFC is critical for the maintenance of information about the current incentive value of reinforcers or the use of that information to guide behavior.
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U2 - 10.1037/0735-7044.119.1.317
DO - 10.1037/0735-7044.119.1.317
M3 - Article
C2 - 15727536
AN - SCOPUS:14044254857
SN - 0735-7044
VL - 119
SP - 317
EP - 322
JO - Behavioral Neuroscience
JF - Behavioral Neuroscience
IS - 1
ER -