Journal article
Novel taste facilitation of the association of visual cues with toxicosis in rats
Abstract
The present experiments examined the conditions under which rats rapidly learn to avoid ingesting visually distinctive food objects associated with toxicosis. It was found that the presence of a novel taste associated with a visually distinctive food object faciliated acquisition of visual-cue-toxicosis associations. Further experiments failed to support either higher order conditioning or sensory preconditioning models of this phenomenon. The …
Authors
Galef BG; Osborne B
Journal
Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, Vol. 92, No. 5, pp. 907–916
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Publication Date
October 1978
DOI
10.1037/h0077531
ISSN
0021-9940