ReviewLearning & behavior2022
Incentive disengagement and the adaptive significance of frustrative nonreward.
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- On the nature of grief: uncovering the evolutionary roots of loss across the animal realm.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Dynamic salience as a basis for behavioural meta-malleability.Royal Society open science · 2026Review
- Midfrontal theta power relates to response speeding following frustrative nonreward.NeuroImage · 2026Article
- Examining non-reinforced lever pressing as intrinsically-motivated behavior.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Reference-point dependent reinforcement learning in humans and rats.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Frustration brake failure hypothesis of substance use disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Frustrative Nonreward: Behavior, Circuits, Neurochemistry, and Disorders.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Abstinence as Choice: Exploring Voluntary Abstinence from Alcohol Self-Administration Using the Resurgence-as-Choice Framework.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Article
- What if the reward is not as yummy? Study of the effects of Successive Negative Contrast in domestic dogs in two different tasks.Journal of veterinary behavior : clinical applications and research : official journal of : Australian Veterinary Behaviour Interest Group, International Working Dog Breeding Association · 2024Article
- Positive correlation between measures of habitual responding and motivated responding in mice.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
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Abstract
Mammals respond to an unexpected reward omission or reduction with a variety of behavioral and physiological responses consistent with an aversive emotion traditionally called frustrative nonreward. This review focuses on two aspects of frustrative nonreward, namely (1) the evidence for an aversive emotional state activated by the surprising omission or reduction of a rewarding outcome, and (2) the adaptive value of frustration. Frustrative nonreward has been mainly studied in terms of its mechanisms, across development in rats and across vertebrate species in comparative research. However, its adaptive function remains obscure. Following Domjan's approach to animal learning, this article explores a specific adaptive function hypothesis of frustrative nonreward called the incentive disengagement hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, the adaptive function of frustrative nonreward is to break an attachment to a site, situation, or stimulus that no longer yields appetitive resources (especially food and fluids) to promote the search for rewards in alternative locations. This function is of particular relevance given that mammals are especially vulnerable to reward loss due to their high metabolic rate and the energy demands of their relatively large brain.
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