Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Amount

$35,878.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Learned associations between stimuli and natural rewards are enhanced when discrepancies between anticipated and received reinforcement are encountered (e.g., prediction errors). For instance, during associative conditioning, operant behaviors and mesolim