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. 1989 Summer-Fall;13(2-3):61-7.
doi: 10.1016/s0149-7634(89)80013-2.

The discovery of self-stimulation and other stories

P M Milner  1
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The discovery of self-stimulation and other stories

P M Milner. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 1989 Summer-Fall.

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.

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