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The dominant factor in the “tuning” of single brain neurons to special external environmental stimuli is the internal need and the dominant motivation arising on its basis.
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Dominant motivation by means of ascending activating influences of hypothalamic centers on the cerebral cortex widens the convergent and discriminating properties of single cortical neurons and combines them functionally at the stage of afferent synthesis for the formation of behavior aimed at satisfying the dominant need.
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Reinforcing excitation fixes a definite architecture of interconnected neurons on the canvas of brain neurons functionally combined by motivation, thereby fixing in the properties of those neurons all the parameters of the reinforcing stimulus and its dynamic spatiotemporal localization. This architecture of reinforcing excitation is extracted during each subsequent formation of the analogous need by the corresponding motivation and it is a controlling factor (the action result acceptor) of goal-directed activity.
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This article is based on the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Neuronal Mechanisms of Integrative Brain Activity, held in Moscow in May, 1976.
Translated from Zhurnal Vysshnei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 8–15, January–February, 1978.
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Sudakov, K.V. Role of motivational excitation in integrative activity of single brain neurons. Neurosci Behav Physiol 10, 146–152 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01148452
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