Intracranial self‐stimulation in cats

Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area and other regions of rat brain.

1954 • 3,047 citations

Self-Stimulation of the Brain

1958 • 403 citations

Electrical Studies on the Unanesthetized Brain

1961 • 314 citations

Reticular Formation of the Brain

1958 • 293 citations

Pleasure Centers in the Brain

1956 • 280 citations

Experiments on Motivation

1957 • 244 citations

Rewarding and punishing effects from stimulating the same place in the rat's brain.

1958 • 166 citations

Physiological Evidence Concerning Importance of the Amygdaloid Nuclear Region in the Integration of Circulatory Function and Emotion in Man

1954 • 162 citations

Both rewarding and punishing effects from stimulation of posterior hypothalamus of cat with same electrode at same intensity.

1958 • 150 citations

A preliminary mapping of electrical reinforcing effects in the rat brain.

1956 • 138 citations

Effects of hunger and male sex hormone on self-stimulation of the brain.

1958 • 125 citations

Topographic organization of hypothalamic self-stimulation functions.

1960 • 110 citations

Rapid escape learning without avoidance learning motivated by hypothalamic stimulation in cats.

1958 • 102 citations

Reward Schedules and Behavior Maintained by Intracranial Self-Stimulation

1955 • 102 citations

A motivational analyses of the reticular activating system

1960 • 69 citations

Sensory, Motor and Autonomic Effects of Mesial Temporal Stimulation in Man

1961 • 53 citations

SOME NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL CORRELATES OF ELECTRICAL SELF‐STIMULATION OF THE LIMBIC SYSTEM

1959 • 52 citations

Motivational and Perceptual Aspects of Subcortical Stimulation in Cats

1958 • 40 citations

SOME EFFECTS OF BRAIN STIMULATION ON TIMING BEHAVIOR

1960 • 38 citations

Positive reinforcement induced by intracerebral stimulation in the monkey.

1958 • 35 citations

Self-Regulation of Brain-Stimulating Current Intensity in the Rat

1959 • 33 citations

A purring center in the cat's brain

1936 • 29 citations

Avoidance and approach learning motivated by stimulation of identical hypothalamic loci

1959 • 22 citations

Correlations Between Levels of Psychological Awareness and Physiological Activity in the Central Nervous System

1955 • 19 citations

Subcortical Recording in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

1959 • 17 citations

Effect of Sham Operations in the Hypothalamus on Food and Water Intake of the Rat

1957 • 16 citations