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Conditioned Place Preference

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The conditioned place preference (CPP) procedure has been widely used in pharmacology, learning, and behavioral neuroscience. Its most common, but not exclusive, application has been in studying the rewarding and/or aversive properties of drugs and as a screening tool for drug abuse potential (e.g., Bardo and Bevins 2000; Tzschentke 1998). Although there are many methodological differences, the general CPP procedure consists of presenting a rewarding or aversive stimulus in the presence of one distinct chamber on one day and a neutral stimulus (e.g., vehicle) in another distinct chamber on alternating days. After several conditioning days, subjects receive a choice test that involves access to the entire apparatus without the presence of the stimuli. A CPP is established if subjects spend significantly more time in the compartment paired with the rewarding or aversive stimulus. If subjects spend less time in a compartment paired with a stimulus, they may be...

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

    Chana K. Akins

  2. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

    Shannon E. Eaton & B. Levi Bolin

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Akins, C.K., Eaton, S.E., Bolin, B.L. (2022). Conditioned Place Preference. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_1303

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