“…Together our findings that account for behavior based on tracking tendency suggest that BLA-IC is necessary for supporting the initial approach directed at the preferred response location. Yet the modest effects for both food cup and lever approach behaviors suggests other brain circuits support these behaviors in the absence of BLA-IC communication (Flagel, Clark et al 2011, Saunders and Robinson 2012, Clark, Collins et al 2013, Saunders, Yager et al 2013, Chang, Todd et al 2015, Haight, Fraser et al 2015, Ahrens, Meyer et al 2016, DiFeliceantonio and Berridge 2016, Fitzpatrick, Creeden et al 2016, Fraser, Haight et al 2016, Naeem and White 2016, Sculfort, Bartsch et al 2016, Stringfield, Palmatier et al 2016, Torres, Glueck et al 2016, Versaggi, King et al 2016, Fitzpatrick and Morrow 2017, Koshy Cherian, Kucinski et al 2017, Pitchers, Phillips et al 2017, White and Naeem 2017).…”