A study in rats finding that greater concentrations of sucrose,an enjoyable taste for rats,led to greater concentrations of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens suggests that:
A) sucrose serves as an agonist for dopamine neurons.
B) dopamine levels increase as the value of reward increases.
C) an increased firing rate of GABA neurons occurred in the ventral tegmental area.
D) sucrose was likely a novel stimulus.
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