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For better or worse, or for a change?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Sebastien Bouret
Sebastien Bouret*
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CNRS, Team Motivation Brain & Behavior, ICM—Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013 Paris, France sebastien.bouret@icm-institute.org https://sites.google.com/site/motivationbrainbehavior
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Abstract

The noradrenergic system is intimately related to the autonomic system and is thought to play a key role at the interface between arousal and cognition. The GANE (glutamate amplifies noradrenergic effects) theory proposes a complete account of that role, with an emphasis on the quantitative effect of noradrenaline on stimulus processing. This is in marked contrast to network reset theory, which emphasizes the qualitative effect of noradrenaline of updating the representation of the environment.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e203
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