The two-arousal hypothesis: Reticular formation and limbic system.

The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.

1994 • 16,641 citations

Brain stem reticular formation and activation of the EEG

1949 • 4,188 citations

The Behavior of Organisms

1938 • 3,256 citations

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

1954 • 3,047 citations

Drives and the C. N. S. (conceptual nervous system).

1955 • 2,004 citations

HIPPOCAMPAL ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY IN AROUSAL

1954 • 1,379 citations

Theories of Learning

1948 • 1,322 citations

Reticular formation of the brain

1959 • 1,213 citations

Hypothalamic control of food intake in rats and cats.

1951 • 1,187 citations

HIPPOCAMPAL PROJECTIONS AND RELATED NEURAL PATHWAYS TO THE MID-BRAIN IN THE CAT

1958 • 982 citations

Textbook of psychology

1958 • 951 citations

The lateral hypothalamic syndrome: Recovery of feeding and drinking after lateral hypothalamic lesions.

1962 • 880 citations

Interference and forgetting.

1957 • 795 citations

The significance of the rabbit's septum as a relay station between the midbrain and the hippocampus I. The control of hippocampus arousal activity by the septum cells

1962 • 756 citations

A study of supersensitivity in denervated mammalian skeletal muscle

1959 • 737 citations

HYPOTHALAMIC REGULATION OF SLEEP IN RATS. AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

1946 • 655 citations

Activation: A Neuropsychological Dimension

1979 • 631 citations

Activation and Behavior

1964 • 597 citations

Subcortical mechanisms in emotional behavior: affective changes following septal forebrain lesions in the albino rat.

1953 • 588 citations

Somato-motor, autonomic and electrocorticographic responses to electrical stimulation of rhinencephalic and other structures in primates, cat, and dog; a study of responses from the limbic, subcallosal, orbito-insular, piriform and temporal cortex, hippocampus-fornix and amygdala.

1951 • 548 citations

Some ascending pathways in the brain stem reticular formation.

1958 • 546 citations

Cholinergic mechanisms in the control of behavior by the brain.

1963 • 542 citations

HABITUATION OF THE AROUSAL REACTION

1956 • 534 citations

Hypothalamic Substrates of Reward

1962 • 474 citations

A biological theory of reinforcement.

1967 • 472 citations

Effect upon the EEG of acute injury to the brain stem activating system

1949 • 431 citations

Behavioral and EEG changes following chronic brain stem lesions in the cat

1950 • 367 citations

Alternation and exploration in rats with hippocampal lesions.

1962 • 355 citations

SELF-STIMULATION OF THE BRAIN AND THE CENTRAL STIMULANT ACTION OF AMPHETAMINE.

1964 • 313 citations

Perseverative neural processes and consolidation of the memory trace.

1961 • 309 citations

THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE DIENCEPHALON

1960 • 302 citations

Polysaccharides associated with the exterior surface of epithelial cells: Kidney, intestine, brain

1966 • 278 citations

Pharmacologic Dissociation of Behavior and EEG "Sleep Patterns" in Dogs: Morphine, N-Allylnormorphine, and Atropine

1952 • 263 citations

Effect of bilateral hippocampal ablation on DRL performance.

1965 • 254 citations

Alterations in feeding and drinking behavior of rats with lesions in globi pallidi

1961 • 250 citations

Macromolecules and Behavior

1972 • 246 citations

The structural basis of behavior

1960 • 245 citations

Forebrain inhibitory mechanisms: Cortical synchronization induced by basal forebrain stimulation

1962 • 244 citations

The effect of drugs on arousal responses produced by electrical stimulation of the reticular formation of the brain

1958 • 232 citations

Effect of septal lesions on thirst in the rat as indicated by water consumption and operant responding for water reward.

1965 • 222 citations

The forebrain of alligator mississippiensis

1917 • 205 citations

The significance of the rabbit's septum as a relay station between the midbrain and the hippocampus II. The differential influence of drugs upon both the septal cell firing pattern and the hippocampus theta activity

1962 • 201 citations

A histochemical study of cholinergic fibres in the cerebral cortex.

1965 • 198 citations

Activity changes following partial hippocampal lesions in rats.

1963 • 186 citations

Reorganization of Function in the Nervous System--Use and Disuse

1964 • 178 citations

Action decrement and its relation to learning.

1958 • 169 citations

Rhythmicity of septal cell discharges at various levels of reticular excitation

1965 • 169 citations

The Nature of Sleep

1963 • 167 citations

The electrocorticogram in the chronic cerveau isolé cat

1965 • 165 citations

Amygdaloid stimulation and learning in the rat.

1964 • 162 citations

The hippocampal electrical correlates of the homeostatic regulation of motivation

1966 • 161 citations

Approach-escape interactions in rat brain

1962 • 161 citations

The fast component in the electrical activity of rabbit's hippocampus

1965 • 153 citations

The electrical excitability of chronically isolated cortex studied by means of permanently implanted electrodes

1962 • 146 citations

The effects of chronic brain-stem lesions on cortical and muscular activity during sleep and waking in the cat

1965 • 138 citations

Rate of Recovery of Functioning in Cats with Rostral Reticular Lesions

1959 • 138 citations

CORTICIFUGAL INFLUENCES ON INTRINSIC BRAINSTEM CONDUCTION IN CAT AND MONKEY

1957 • 136 citations

Medial forebrain bundle and ?feeding centers? of the hypothalamus

1961 • 132 citations

An evaluation of response rate as a measure of rewarding intracranial stimulation.

1962 • 130 citations

ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX IN THE UNANESTHETIZED CAT

1937 • 129 citations

Dissociation of Electrocortical Activation and Behavioural Arousal

1962 • 128 citations

A NEUROANATOMICAL AND BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS OF THE SYNDROMES RESULTING FROM MIDBRAIN LEMNISCAL AND RETICULAR LESIONS IN THE CAT.

1963 • 125 citations

Neuromimes: Action of a Reciprocally Inhibitory Pair

1964 • 119 citations

Reticular mechanisms and behavior.

1959 • 119 citations

Post-reinforcement EEG synchronization during alimentary behavior

1964 • 117 citations

Effects of chlorpromazine, meprobamate, pentobarbital and morphine on self-stimulation.

1960 • 116 citations

Some effects of muscarinic cholinergic blocking drugs on behavior and the electrocorticogram

1964 • 116 citations

An intercellular substance in rat cerebral cortex: Submicroscopic distribution of ruthenium red

1967 • 112 citations

FIXATION OF EXPERIENCE IN THE RAT SPINAL CORD

1963 • 111 citations

Topographic organization of hypothalamic self-stimulation functions.

1960 • 110 citations

Ciba Foundation Symposium ‐ The Nature of Sleep

1961 • 108 citations

Supersensitivity Following Lesions OF the Nervous System

1962 • 100 citations

Reexamination of prolonged retrograde amnesia in one-trial learning.

1966 • 100 citations

Effect of chemical stimulation of the septal area on motivation.

1964 • 92 citations

Satiation effects in self-stimulation of the brain.

1958 • 90 citations

The Septum of the Cat

1964 • 86 citations

Distinct "Feeding" and "Hunger Motivating" Systems in the Lateral Hypothalamus of the Rat

1961 • 86 citations

Thalamic mechanisms involved in cortical desynchronization and recruiting responses

1963 • 81 citations

Effect of lesions of the septal-limbic area on the behavior of cats.

1965 • 81 citations

Modification of locomotor performance by reticular formation and basal forebrain stimulation in the cat: Evidence for reciprocal systems

1966 • 80 citations

Comparative Electron Microscopy of Synapses in the Vertebrate Spinal Cord

1966 • 78 citations

Central Neuro-Humoral Transmission in Sleep and Wakefulness

1965 • 76 citations

The nature of the suppression of food intake by lateral hypothalamic lesions in rats

1963 • 71 citations

Lateral hypothalamic aphagia: motor failure or motivational deficit?

1965 • 70 citations

A motivational analyses of the reticular activating system

1960 • 69 citations

Enhanced avoidance behavior following septal lesions in the rat as a function of lesion size and spontaneous activity.

1965 • 69 citations

EFFECT OF ACUTE BRAIN STEM LESIONS ON THE ELECTRICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE LIMBIC SYSTEM AND NEOCORTEX

1961 • 68 citations

Facilitation of Sidman avoidance behavior by positive brain stimulation.

1968 • 60 citations

Learning and retention in cats with lesions in reticular formation

1964 • 60 citations

Effects of atropine on electrical activity of hippocampus and cerebral cortex in cat

1966 • 59 citations

Feeding induced in cats by electrical stimulation of the brain stem

1966 • 59 citations

Effect of brain-stem lesions on conditioned responses of cats

1959 • 59 citations

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF DIFFERENTIAL APPROACH-AVOIDANCE CONDITIONING IN CATS1

1960 • 58 citations

Neurohumors in hypothalamic substrates of reward

1964 • 58 citations

Spreading Depression and Recovery from Lateral Hypothalamic Damage

1965 • 57 citations

The Accumulation of S35 -Chlorpromazine in Brain

1956 • 56 citations

Septal efferents in the cat

1966 • 54 citations

Approach-avoidance dissociations in rat brain

1960 • 47 citations

Hypothalamic Motivational Processes as Reflected by their Hippocampal Electrical Correlates

1965 • 46 citations

EEG synchronization induced by high frequency midbrain reticular stimulation in anesthetized cats

1967 • 45 citations

EFFECTS OF STIMULATION OF THE SEPTAL AREA UPON BLOOD PRESSURE AND RESPIRATION IN THE CAT

1964 • 44 citations

Neurophysiological evidence for a differential organization of the mesencephalic reticular formation

1967 • 43 citations

Effects of subcortical electrical stimulation on learning in the rat.

1962 • 39 citations

Attenuation of passive avoidance by continuous septal stimulation

1964 • 38 citations

Comparative effects of atropine and methylatropine on maze acquisition and eating.

1964 • 36 citations

Habituation of the arousal response to direct stimulation of the brainstem

1961 • 35 citations

The effects of chlorpromazine and pentobarbital on sustained attention in the rat

1965 • 34 citations

Brain lesions and locomotive exploration in the albino rat.

1964 • 32 citations

Heart Rate: Differential Effects of Hypothalamic and Septal Self-Stimulation

1963 • 31 citations

Heart Rate Reactions and Locus of Stimulation within the Septal Area of the Rat

1964 • 31 citations

Effects of lesions in the amygdalo-hippocampo-septal system on food and water intake in the rat

1967 • 31 citations

Neural mechanisms of sleep: Changing view of reticular formation function.

1966 • 31 citations

Hippocampal electrical correlates of self-stimulation in the rat

1966 • 31 citations

Neural systems of response release and control.

1965 • 30 citations

Interspecies comparisons of the reliability of dominance orders.

1965 • 30 citations

Reinforcing properties of arousal.

1960 • 29 citations

Brain Stem Mechanisms of Sleep

1967 • 28 citations

Blood-pressure and heart-rate changes in dogs during hypothalamic self-stimulation.

1965 • 27 citations

Stimulation of dorsal midbrain during septal and hypothalamic self-stimulation.

1966 • 26 citations

Brain stem-limbic connections, and the electrographic aspects of deep sleep in the cat.

1965 • 25 citations

An afferent hippocampal fiber system in the fornix of the monkey

1963 • 23 citations

Retention of runway performance as a function of proactive interference.

1963 • 23 citations

The Reticular Core—1957

1958 • 22 citations

Heart Rate Changes after Reinforcing Brain Stimulation in Rats

1963 • 21 citations

A positive reinforcing effect of electrical stimulation.

1962 • 21 citations

Weight loss following lesions at the self-stimulation point: Ventral midbrain tegmentum.

1966 • 20 citations

Inhibition of tonic cardiac sympathetic activity by stimulation of brain septal region

1963 • 20 citations

Effects of sodium pentobarbital on brain self-stimulation.

1964 • 19 citations

Tegmental Self-Stimulation After Amygdaloid Ablation

1961 • 17 citations

Cholinergic stimulation of the brain and avoidance behavior

1966 • 13 citations

The interaction of amphetamine and eserine on the EEG

1966 • 12 citations

Degree of arousal and performance: Effects of reticular stimulation on an operant task

1967 • 11 citations

THE EFFECTS OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE SHOCK ON THE ACTION OF A REINFORCING STIMULUS¹

1966 • 10 citations

Effect of brain lesions on conditioned cortical electropotentials

1966 • 9 citations

Thalamic inhibition by thalamic stimulation

1967 • 6 citations

Effect of chlorpromazine on the response patterns of hypothalamic units

1964 • 5 citations

Sodium retention following experimental lesions of the precommissural septum in the monkey

1966 • 5 citations

A Neurophysiological Speculation Concerning Learning

1962 • 3 citations