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Exploring the threat-sensitive predator avoidance hypothesis on mate competition in two wild populations of Trinidadian guppies.

Author(s): Chuard PJC, Grant JWA, Ramnarine IW, Brown GE

The intensity of mate competition is often influenced by predation pressure. The threat-sensitive predator avoidance hypothesis predicts that prey should precisely adjust their fitness-related activities to the level of perceived acute predation risk and th...

Article GUID: 32860863
A Go/No-go delayed nonmatching-to-sample procedure to measure object-recognition memory in rats.

Author(s): Cole E, Chad M, Moman V, Mumby DG

Behav Processes. 2020 Jun 10;:104180 Authors: Cole E, Chad M, Moman V, Mumby DG

Article GUID: 32533993
Context controls the timing of responses to an alcohol-predictive conditioned stimulus.

Author(s): Valyear MD, Chaudhri N

Behav Processes. 2020 Feb 01;:104061 Authors: Valyear MD, Chaudhri N

Article GUID: 32017964
Ideal despotic distributions in convict cichlids (Amatitlania nigrofasciata)? Effects of predation risk and personality on habitat preference.

Author(s): Church KDW, Grant JWA

Behav Processes. 2019 Jan;158:163-171 Authors: Church KDW, Grant JWA

Article GUID: 30529688
Alcohol-seeking and relapse: A focus on incentive salience and contextual conditioning.

Author(s): Valyear MD, Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N

Behav Processes. 2017 Aug;141(Pt 1):26-32 Authors: Valyear MD, Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N

Article GUID: 28473252
Title:Alcohol-seeking and relapse: A focus on incentive salience and contextual conditioning.
Authors:Valyear MD,  Villaruel FR,  Chaudhri N
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28473252?dopt=Abstract
Category:Behav Processes
PMID:28473252
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology/FRQS Groupe de recherche en neurobiologie comportementale, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2 Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology/FRQS Groupe de recherche en neurobiologie comportementale, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Electronic address: nadia.chaudhri@concordia.ca.

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Alcohol-seeking and relapse: A focus on incentive salience and contextual conditioning.

Behav Processes. 2017 Aug;141(Pt 1):26-32

Authors: Valyear MD, Villaruel FR, Chaudhri N

Abstract

Environmental stimuli that reliably accompany alcohol intake can become associated with the pharmacological effects of alcohol through classical (Pavlovian) conditioning. Of growing interest to addiction researchers is whether or not this process results in the attribution of incentive salience to alcohol-predictive cues, which could motivate alcohol-seeking behavior and relapse. To evaluate this question, we present a review of rodent behavioral studies that examined the capacity of alcohol-predictive cues to (i) support sign-tracking behavior, (ii) serve as conditioned reinforcers, and (iii) produce Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer. A second, emerging area of research is focused on delineating the role of context in alcohol-seeking behavior and relapse. Here, we review studies showing that alcohol-associated contexts (i) support conditioned place preference, (ii) renew extinguished alcohol-seeking behavior, and (iii) modulate alcohol-seeking responses elicited by discrete alcohol-predictive cues. These behavioral effects may be mediated by unique psychological processes, and have important implications for cue-reactivity studies and neurobiological research.

PMID: 28473252 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]