title: The reinforcing function of the emotions.
abstract: The present study is devoted to a brief exposition of the results of investigations of the central mechanisms of the reinforcing properties of emotions that were carried out in the I.P. Pavlov Physiology Department of the Institute of Experimental Medicine in recent years, and to an attempt to outline the prospects for further developments in this sphere of brain physiology which is vital for conditioned reflex theory.
authors.affiliation: I.P. Pavlov Physiology Department, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Saint Petersburg.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Vartanyan
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Petrov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology