Pleasures of Research
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Pleasures of the brain.
How does the brain cause positive affective reactions to sensory pleasure? An answer to pleasure causation requires knowing not only which brain systems are activated by pleasant stimuli, but also which systems actually cause their positive affective properties. This paper focuses on brain causation of behavioral positive affective reactions to pleasant sensations, such as sweet tastes. Its goa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/228187a0