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The discovery of self-stimulation and other stories
1Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
The author's recollections of the events leading to the discovery of rewarding brain stimulation at McGill University in 1953, with a history of his subsequent attempts to find a learning theory congruent with the phenomenon.