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(Affective neuroscience & motivation articles are in blue)
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Peciña S., Cagniard, B., Berridge, K.C., Aldridge, J.W. & Zhuang, X. Hyperdopaminergic mutant mice have higher 'wanting' but not 'liking' for sweet rewards. Journal of Neuroscience 23 (28), 9395-9402, 2003.

Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. Parsing reward.  Trends in Neurosciences, 26(9), 507-513, 2003.

Berridge, K.C. Pleasures of the brain. Brain & Cognition, 52 (10), 106-128, 2003.

Winkielman, P. & Berridge, K.C. Irrational Wanting and Subrational Liking: How Rudimentary Motivational and Affective Processes Shape Preferences and Choices. Political Psychology 24(4), 657-680, 2003.

Reynolds, S. M. &  Berridge,  Glutamate motivational ensembles in nucleus accumbens: Rostrocaudal shell gradients of fear and feeding. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17 (10), 2187-2200, 2003 .

Berridge, K.C. & Winkielman, P. What is an unconscious emotion? Cognition & Emotion, 17, 181-211, 2003.

Berridge, K.C. Irrational pursuits: Hyper-incentives from a visceral brain. In The Psychology of Economic Decisions (Vol. 1), I. Brocas & J. Carrillo (Eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 17-40, 2003.

Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. Addiction. Annual Review of Psychology, v. 54, pp. 25-53, 2003.

Berridge, K.C. Comparing the emotional brain of humans and other animals. In Handbook of Affective Sciences, R.J. Davidson, H.H. Goldsmith, & K. Scherer (Eds.), Chapt. 3: pp. 25-51, Oxford University Press, 2003.

Aldridge, J.W. & Berridge,K.C. Basal ganglia neural coding of natural action sequences. In Graybiel, A.M., Kitai, S.T. & DeLong, M. (Eds.), The Basal Ganglia VI. Plenum, New York, pp. 279-287, 2003.

Aldridge, J.W. & Berridge, K.C. Coding of behavioral sequences in the basal ganglia. In Nicolson, L.F.B. & Faull, R.L. (Eds.), The Basal Ganglia VII. pp. 53-66, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York, 2002.

Meyer-Luehmann, M., Thompson, J.F., Berridge, K.C., and Aldridge, J.W. Substantia nigra pars reticulata neurons code initiation of a serial pattern: Implications for natural action sequences and sequential disorders. European Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 1599-1608, 2002.

Reynolds, S. M., & Berridge, K. C. Positive and negative motivation in nucleus accumbens shell: Bivalent rostrocaudal gradients for GABA-elicited eating, taste "liking"/"disliking" reactions, place preference/avoidance, and fear. Journal of Neuroscience, 22(16), 7308-7320, 2002.

Kelley A.E. & Berridge K.C. Neuroscience of natural rewards: relevance to addictive drugs (minireview) Journal of Neuroscience 22: 3306-11, 2002. 

Wyvell, C.L. & Berridge, K.C. Incentive-sensitization by previous amphetamine exposure:  Increased cue-triggered ‘wanting’ for sucrose reward. Journal of Neuroscience, 21 (19), 2001.

Reynolds, S. & Berridge, K.C. Fear and feeding in the nucleus accumbens shell: Rostrocaudal segregation of GABA elicitation of defensive behavior and eating behavior. Journal of Neuroscience, 21 (9), 3261-3270, 2001.

Berridge, K.C. Reward learning: Reinforcement, incentives and expectations. In Psychology of Learning and Motivation, D. L. Medin (Ed.), Academic Press, V. 40, 223-278, 2001.

Steiner, J., Glaser, D. Hawilo, M.H., & Berridge, K.C. Comparative expression of hedonic impact: Affective reactions to taste by human infants and other primates. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 25, 53-74, 2001.

Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. Incentive-sensitization and addiction. Addiction (Millenium issue on theories of addiction), 96 (1), 103-114, 2001.

Berridge, K.C. Taste reactivity: Measuring hedonic impact in infants and animals. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review, 24, 173-198, 2000.

Wyvell, C.L. & Berridge, K.C Intra-accumbens amphetamine increases the conditioned incentive salience of sucrose reward: Enhancement of reward 'wanting' without enhanced 'liking' or response reinforcement. Journal of Neuroscience, 20, 8122-8130, 2000.

Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. The psychology and neurobiology of addiction: an incentive-sensitization view. Addiction, 95, Suppl. 2, S91-S117, 2000.

Berridge, K.C. & Aldridge, J.W. Super-stereotypy I: Enhancement of a complex movement sequence by systemic dopamine D1 agonists. Synapse, 37, 194-204, 2000.

Berridge, K.C. & Aldridge, J.W. Super-stereotypy II: Enhancement of a complex movement sequence by intraventricular dopamine D1 agonists. Synapse, 37, 205-215, 2000.

Bursten, S., Berridge, K.C. & Owings, D.H. Do California ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi) use ritualized syntactic cephalocaudal grooming as an agonistic signal? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 114, 281–290, 2000.

Söderpalm, A. H. V., & K. C Berridge. The hedonic impact and intake of food are increased by midazolam microinjection in the parabrachial nucleus. Brain Research, 887, 288-297, 2000.

Söderpalm, A. H. V., & K. C Berridge. Food intake after diazepam, morphine, or muscimol: microinjections in the nucleus accumbens shell. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior, 66, 429-434, 2000.

Peciña, S. & Berridge, K.C. Opioid Site in Nucleus Accumbens Shell Mediates Food Intake and Hedonic 'Liking': Map Based on Microinjection Fos Plumes. Brain Research, 863, 71-86, 2000.

Feurté, S., Nicolaidis, S., & Berridge, K.C. Conditioned taste aversion in rats for a threonine-deficient diet: demonstration by the taste reactivity test. Physiology & Behavior, 68, 423-429, 2000.

Berridge, K.C. Pleasure, pain, desire, and dread: hidden core processes of emotion. In Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology. Kahneman, D., Diener, E., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.), New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp 527-559 (1999).

Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. The role of dopamine in reward: Hedonics, learning, or incentive salience? Brain Research Reviews, 28 (3), 308-367, 1998.

Aldridge, J.W. & Berridge, K.C. Coding of serial order by neostriatal neurons: a ‘natural action’ approach to movement sequence. Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 2777-2787, 1998.

H.C. Cromwell, K.C. Berridge, J. Drago, and M.S. Levine. Action sequencing is impaired in D1A-deficient mutant mice. European Journal of Neuroscience, 10, 2426-2432, 1998.

Nesse, R. M. & Berridge, K.C. Psychoactive drug use in evolutionary perspective. Science, 278, 63-66, 1997.

Peciña, S., Berridge, K.C., Parker, L.A. Pimozide does not shift palatability: Separation of anhedonia from sensorimotor effects by the taste reactivity paradigm. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior, 58, 801-811, 1997.

Cromwell, H.C. & Berridge, K.C. Haloperidol decreases hyperkinetic paw treading induced by globus pallidus lesions in the rat. Experimental Neurology, 145, 288-294, 1997.

Berridge, K.C. Food reward: Brain substrates of wanting and liking. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 20, 1-25, 1996.

Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. Control versus causation of addiction (commentary) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 576, 1996.

Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. The pursuit of value: tolerance or sensitization (commentary) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 594, 1996.

Cromwell, H.C. & Berridge, K.C. Implementation of serial action sequences by a neostriatal site: A lesion mapping study of grooming syntax. Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 3444-3458, 1996.

Colonnese, M.T., Stallman, E.L., & Berridge, K.C. Ontogeny of action syntax in altricial and precocial rodents: Grooming sequences by rat and guinea pig pups. Behaviour, 133, 1165-1195, 1996.

Peciña, S. & Berridge, K.C. Brainstem contains primary substrates for benzodiazepine-induced palatability enhancement: Microinjections into forebrain versus hindbrain ventricles. Brain Research, 727, 22-30, 1996.

Peciña, S. & Berridge, K.C. Central enhancement of taste pleasure by intraventricular morphine. Neurobiology, 3, 269-280, 1995.

Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. The mind of an addicted brain: Neural sensitization of "wanting" versus "liking". Current Directions in Psychological Science, 4, 71-76, 1995.

Berridge, K.C. & Peciña, S. Benzodiazepine systems, appetite, and palatability. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 19, 121-131, 1995.

Berridge, K.C. The development of action patterns. In The Development of Behavioural Causation, J. Hogan & J. Bolhuis (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 147-180 (1994).

Cromwell, H.C. & Berridge, K.C. Mapping of globus pallidus and ventral pallidum lesions that produce hyperkinetic treading. Brain Research, 668, 16-29, 1994.

Cromwell, H.C. & Berridge, K.C. Where does damage lead to enhanced food aversion: Ventral pallidum/substantia innominata or lateral hypothalamus? Brain Research, 624, 1-10, 1993.

Robinson, T.E. & Berridge, K.C. The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction. Brain Research Reviews, 18, 247-291, 1993.

Laeng, B., Berridge, K.C., Butter, C.M. Pleasantness of a sweet taste during hunger and satiety: Effects of human gender and "sweet tooth". Appetite, 21, 247-254, 1993.

Aldridge, J.W., Berridge, K.C., Herman, M. & Zimmer, L. Neuronal coding of behavioral sequence: syntax of grooming in the neostriatum. Psychological Science, 4, 391-395, 1993.

Doyle, T.G., Berridge, K.C., & Gosnell, B.A. Morphine enhances hedonic palatability in rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 46, 745-749, 1993.

Galaverna, O.G., Seeley, R.J., Berridge, K.C., Grill, H.J., Schulkin, J., & Epstein, A.N. Lesions of the central nucleus of the amygdala: Effects on taste reactivity, taste aversion learning, and sodium appetite. Behavioral Brain Research, 59, 11-18, 1993.

Berridge, K.C. & Whishaw, I.Q. Cortex, Striatum, and Cerebellum: Control of syntactic grooming sequences. Experimental Brain Research, 90, 275-290, 1992.

Berridge, K.C. & Zajonc, R.B. Hypothalamic cooling elicits eating: Differential effects on motivation and emotion. Psychological Science, 2, 184-189, 1991.

Berridge, K.C. Modulation of taste affect by hunger, caloric satiety, and sensory-specific satiety. Appetite, 16, 103-120, 1991.

Berridge, K.C. & Valenstein, E.S. What psychological processes mediate feeding evoked by electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus? Behavioral Neuroscience, 105, 3-14, 1991.

Treit, D. & Berridge, K.C. A comparison of benzodiazepine, dopamine, and serotonin agents in the Taste-Reactivity Paradigm. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, & Behavior, 37, 451-456, 1990.

Berridge, K.C. Comparative fine structure of action: Rules of form and sequence in the grooming patterns of six rodent species. Behavior, 113, 21-56, 1990.

Berridge, K.C. & Cromwell, H.C. Sensorimotor/Motivational Interaction controls aphagia and exaggerated treading after striatopallidal lesions. Behavioral Neuroscience, 104, 778-795, 1990.

Berridge, K.C. Substantia Nigra 6-OHDA lesions mimic striatopallidal disruption of syntactic grooming chains: A Neural systems analysis of sequence control. Psychobiology, 17, 377-385, 1989.

Berridge, K.C. Progressive degradation of serial grooming chains by descending decerebration. Behavioural Brain Research, 33, 241-253, 1989.

Berridge, K.C., Venier, I.L., & Robinson, T.E. 6-OHDA aphagia without impairment of taste reactivity: Implications for theories of dopamine function. Behavioral Neuroscience, 103, 36-45, 1989.

Earlier publications are listed in Kent Berridge's curriculum vita.