Roman Christopher, Reilly Steve
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.
Behav Neurosci. 2009 Feb;123(1):206-11. doi: 10.1037/a0014308.
The present experiment examined the influence of insular cortex (IC) lesions on the intake of a taste stimulus in a consummatory procedure that used morphine as the unconditioned stimulus. In normal rats, morphine caused a rapid reduction in saccharin intake when the taste was novel but not when it was familiar. Irrespective of stimulus novelty, morphine had little influence on the saccharin consumption of IC-lesioned rats. The results are discussed in terms of a lesion-induced disruption of (i) a reward comparison mechanism and (ii) the perception of taste novelty.
本实验在以吗啡作为无条件刺激的终结性程序中,研究了岛叶皮质(IC)损伤对味觉刺激摄入量的影响。在正常大鼠中,当味觉新颖时,吗啡会使糖精摄入量迅速减少,但当味觉熟悉时则不会。无论刺激是否新颖,吗啡对IC损伤大鼠的糖精消耗量影响很小。我们从以下两方面对结果进行了讨论:(i)损伤引起的奖励比较机制破坏;(ii)味觉新颖性的感知。