Abstract
Animals which fed to electrical stimulation of the hypothalamus also self stimulated at the same current level. However, there was minimal overlap between the train length that animals preferred in the self stimulation situation and that required to produce feeding. The evidence suggests that the rewarding properties of the stimulation decline as the apparent hunger builds up. The data are incompatible with an interpretation of the reinforcing properties of self stimulation being positively correlated with hunger, consummatory responses, or fixed action patterns.
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