In associative learning studies of monkey, dopaminergic neural activity in the ventral segmental area of subjects that had been successfully conditioned to a stimulus showed:

In associative learning studies of monkey, dopaminergic neural activity in the ventral segmental area of subjects that had been successfully conditioned to a stimulus showed:

In associative learning studies of monkey, dopaminergic neural activity in the ventral segmental area of subjects that had been successfully conditioned to a stimulus showed:





  1. decreased activity when they were given a reward.
  2. decreased activity in response to the conditioned stimulus.
  3. increased activity when they were given a reward.
  4. decreased activity when the predicted reward was withheld.
  5. all of the above.



Answer: 4