Central stimulation and other new approaches to motivation and reward.

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

1954 • 3,047 citations

PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONS OF THE TEMPORAL LOBES IN MONKEYS

1939 • 1,703 citations

Personality and Psychotherapy: An Analysis in Terms of Learning, Thinking, and Culture.

1951 • 610 citations

Influence of amygdalectomy on social behavior in monkeys.

1954 • 338 citations

Decreased "Hunger" but Increased Food Intake Resulting from Hypothalamic Lesions

1950 • 294 citations

Learning Motivated by Electrical Stimulation of the Brain

2017 • 250 citations

Experiments on Motivation

1957 • 244 citations

Subcortical mechanisms in emotional behavior: the duration of affective changes following septal and habenular lesions in the albino rat.

1955 • 216 citations

The relation of various hypothalamic lesions to adiposity in the rat

1942 • 202 citations

The Effect of Injections of Hypertonic NaCl‐Solutions into Different Parts of the Hypothalamus of Goats.

1953 • 186 citations

EFFECTS OF DRUGS ON MOTIVATION: THE VALUE OF USING A VARIETY OF MEASURES

1956 • 180 citations

Effects of Amygdaloid Lesions upon Septal Hyperemotionality in the Rat

1958 • 158 citations

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

1958 • 150 citations

The generalization of approach responses as a function of stimulus intensity and strength of motivation.

1942 • 114 citations

Is the Hypothalamus a Center of Emotion?

1941 • 113 citations

Metabolism of Glycine by Bovine Spermatozoa

1956 • 104 citations

The Regulation of Food Intake

1957 • 95 citations

Rhinencephalon and Behavior

1956 • 91 citations

FOOD INTAKE AND SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY OF RATS WITH LESIONS IN THE AMYGDALOID NUCLEI

1952 • 86 citations

SHORTCOMINGS OF FOOD CONSUMPTION AS A MEASURE OF HUNGER; RESULTS FROM OTHER BEHAVIORAL TECHNIQUES

1955 • 75 citations

A comparison of the effects of medial and lateral cerebral resections on conditioned avoidance behavior of monkeys.

1957 • 69 citations

Effects of prefrontal lobotomy on conditioned fear and food responses in monkeys.

1957 • 30 citations