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From: Nucleus accumbens core lesions retard instrumental learning and performance with delayed reinforcement in the rat

Figure 10

Effect of AcbC lesions on performance of free-operant responding for delayed reinforcement Data plotted to show the effects of AcbC lesions (same data as in the previous figure). There was a delay-dependent impairment in AcbC-lesioned rats, who were impaired by the lesion only when reinforcement was delayed. (a) With a delay of 0 s, AcbC-lesioned rats performed just as well as shams postoperatively. The vertical black line indicates the time of surgery, between testing sessions 14 and 15. (b) With a 10 s delay, AcbC-lesioned rats were impaired postoperatively compared to shams. (c) With a 20 s delay, the postoperative impairment in AcbC-lesioned rats was larger still, to the extent that their discrimination between active and inactive levers was no longer significant.

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