Natural behavior microstructure samples:
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• 'Liking' (facial affective reactions to tastes):
  • Affective taste 'liking'/'disliking' expressions: Human babies, adult apes, monkeys, and rats (15MB)
  • Short affective taste clip: Human babies & rats (quicktime file)
  • Short affective taste clip: human babies rats only (windows media player file)
    Based on:

• 'Fearful' (natural defensive & anti-predator reaction):
  • Fearful defensive treading in the wild: squirrels & rattlesnakes (2MB)
    From BBC & National Geographic, provided by & based on research by Profs. D.H. Owings & R.G. Coss
  • Fearful defensive treading in lab: rat accumbens (19MB)
    Based on:

• Incentive salience 'Motivational magnet':
  • MPEG version: Rats try to eat their preferred Pavlovian conditioned stimulus after opioid microinjection in amygdala (8MB)
    
  • Quicktime version: Rats try to eat their preferred Pavlovian conditioned stimulus after opioid microinjection in amygdala (8MB)
    

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• 'Action Syntax' (instinctive syntactic grooming chains):
  • Syntactic grooming chain of rats (18MB)
    Based on:
  • Semantic evolution from groom syntax: Squirrel signals (67MB)
    Based on:
  • Hyperdopaminergic syntactic chain grooming (WMV; 8MB)
  Based on:

• Videos from journal articles or scientific conferences:
• Optogenetic excitation of central amygdala amplifies and narrows incentive motivation to pursue one reward above another (MJF Robinson, SM Warlow, KC Berridge 2014)

Journal of Neuroscience 2014. Based on:

• Instant transformation of learned repulsion into motivational 'wanting' (MJF Robinson & Berridge, Current Biology 2013)

Current Biology 2013. Based on: :

From prediction error to incentive salience (YouTube)

Craving, Addiction & Desire: Scientific & Philosophical Dialogue with the Dalai Lama

Dharamsala, India - November 2013

• Berridge lab research dialogue with the Dalai Lama on craving (Dharamsala, India 2013)
• ( See video by clicking here: choose Video Archive link, then choose Day 2 morning session)
  (photo: Thupten Jinpa, Marc Lewis, Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Kent Berridge, Joan Halifax, The Dalai Lama, Nora Volkow, Wendy Farley, Mathieu Ricard, Sarah Bowen, Diana Chapman Walsh, Richard Davidson)

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