When1: 1953
When2: 1954
Who: James Olds [Olds, James]
What: psychologist
Where: USA
works\ Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area [1954: with Peter Milner]
Detail: He lived 1922 to 1976.
Enjoyable feelings follow electrically stimulating septal region, lateral hypothalamus, and other limbic-system parts used for reward and motivation {pleasure center} {self-stimulation} [1953: with Peter Milner]. Sensory neocortex stimulation never causes such enjoyable feelings. Dopamines affect limbic-system septal region. Hippocampus and amygdala stimulation can cause unpleasant feelings.
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