title: [The dominant motivation in the mechanisms of the conditioned reflex].
abstract: It is substantiated that the mechanisms of dominant motivations play an essential role in conditioning. It is shown that motivations change convergent and chemical characteristics of single neurons of different brain structures and, especially, their sensitivity to corresponding reinforcing stimuli. As a result, motivation plays a role of an initial "canvas", against the background of which molecular "engrams of reinforcement" are built. The processes of interaction between the dominant motivation and reinforcement are mainly addressed to the apparatus of the action result acceptor. It is shown that dominant motivations participate not only in construction of molecular reinforcement engrams but also in their forestalling retrieval.
authors.affiliation: Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
authors.forename: K V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Sudakov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003214:Conditioning, Classical / Q000502:physiology*; D006613:Higher Nervous Activity / Q000502:physiology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009042:Motivation; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history; D012425:Russia (Pre-1917); D014586:USSR