An improved demand curve for analysis of food or drug consumption in behavioral experiments.

ABSTRACT: The incorporation of microeconomics concepts into studies using self-administration procedures has provided critical insights into the factors that influence consumption of a wide range of food and drug reinforcers. In particular, the fitting of demand curves to consumption data provides a powerful analytic tool for computing objective metrics of behavior that can be compared across a wide range of reward types in both human and animal experiments. The results of these analyses depend crucially on the mathematical form used to fit the data. The most common choice is an exponential form proposed by Hursh and Silberberg, which is widely used and has provided fundamental insights into relationships between cost and consumption, but it also has some disadvantages. In this paper, we first brief

SUBMITTER: Newman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7113227 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature