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==References and recommended reading==
'''Historical'''
* Bindra, D. (1974) A motivational view of learning, performance and behavior modification. Psychological Review, 81, 199-213.
* Boakes, R. (1984) From Darwin to behaviourism: psychology and the minds of animals. Cambridge University Press.
* Ferster. C. B., & Skinner, B. F. (1957) Schedules of reinforcement. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
* Herrnstein, R. J. (1997) The matching law: Papers in psychology and economics. Harvard University Press.
* Honig,W. K. (1966) Operant conditioning: Areas of research and application. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
* Honig,W. K.  & Staddon, J. E. R. (Eds.) (1977) The handbook of operant behavior. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
* Skinner, B. F. (1938) The behavior of organisms. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
* Skinner, B. F. (1956) A case history in scientific method. American Psychologist, 11, 221-233.  Also published in Psychology: A study of a science. Vol. II,  S. Koch (Ed.) New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958.
* Thorndike, E. L. (1911) Animal intelligence: Experimental studies. Macmillan.
* Tolman, E. C. (1948) Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review, 55, 189-208
'''Contemporary'''
* Balleine, B. W. (2000) Incentive processes in instrumental conditioning. In R. Mowrer & S. Klein (Eds.), Handbook of contemporary learning theories (p. 307-366). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
* Barto, A. G. (1995) Adaptive critic and the basal ganglia. In: Houk, J. C.; Davis, J. L. & Beiser, D. G. (eds.),  Models of information processing in the basal ganglia, Cambridge: MIT Press, 215-232.
* Barto, A. G., Sutton, R. S., & Anderson, C.W. (1983) Neuronlike adaptive elements that can solve difficult learning control problems. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 13, 834-846. 
* Davison, M., & McCarthy, D. (1988) The matching law: A research review. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
* Dickinson, A. (1985) Actions and habits: The development of behavioural autonomy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences, 308(1135), 67-78.
* Dickinson, A., & Balleine, B. W. (2002) The role of learning in the operation of motivational systems. In Gallistel, C.R. (Ed.), Learning, motivation and emotion (Vol. 3, p. 497-533). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
* Killeen, P., & Sitomer, M. (2003) MPR. Behavioral Processes, 62(1-3), 49–64.
* Montague, P. R., Dayan, P., & Sejnowski, T. J. (1996) A framework for mesencephalic dopamine systems based on predictive Hebbian learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 16(5), 1936-1947. (The seminal paper connecting between dopamine in the basal ganglia and operant learning)
* Schultz, W., Dayan, P. & Montague, P. R. (1997) A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science 275, 1593-1599.
* Staddon, J. E. R. (2001) Adaptive dynamics: The theoretical analysis of behavior.  Cambridge, MA: MIT/Bradford. Pp. xiv, 1-423.
* Staddon J. E. R. (2003/1983) [http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/abl/TableC.htm Adaptive Behavior and Learning].  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Staddon, J. E. R. & Cerutti, D. T. (2003) Operant behavior.  Annual Review of Psychology, 54:115-144.
* Sutton, R. S. & Barto, A. G. (1998) [http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html Reinforcement learning: An introduction]. MIT Press.

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* Tony J. Prescott (2008) [[Action selection]]. Scholarpedia, 3(2):2705.

* Peter Redgrave (2007) [[Basal ganglia]]. Scholarpedia, 2(6):1825.

* Valentino Braitenberg (2007) [[Brain]]. Scholarpedia, 2(11):2918.

* Nestor A. Schmajuk (2008) [[Classical conditioning]]. Scholarpedia, 3(3):2316.

* Howard Eichenbaum (2008) [[Memory]]. Scholarpedia, 3(3):1747.

* Rodolfo Llinas (2008) [[Neuron]]. Scholarpedia, 3(8):1490.

* Florentin Woergoetter and Bernd Porr (2008) [[Reinforcement learning]]. Scholarpedia, 3(3):1448.

* Wolfram Schultz (2007) [[Reward]]. Scholarpedia, 2(3):1652.

* Wolfram Schultz (2007) [[Reward signals]]. Scholarpedia, 2(6):2184.