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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2007 Jan 8;31(3):426–440. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2006.11.002

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Model of the neural bases of appetitive conditioning. This model summarizes the findings of animals and human studies about the neurocircuitry involved in appetitive conditioning. This model is far from being exhaustive. The absence of connections between two regions doesn’t mean that these regions are not connected, but simply that the role of these connections in the network supporting appetitive conditioning is either not known or still unclear. We describe here only regions and connections, whose functions have been thoroughly investigated and are well established.

ACC: anterior cingulate cortex, BLA: basolateral amygdala, CeN: central nucleus of the amygdala, Nacc: nucleus accumbens, OFC: orbitofrontal cortex, PCC: posterior cingulate cortex, VTA: ventral tegmental area.