Novel food preferences in thiamine-deficient rats.
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 61 (1) , 1-4
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022864
Abstract
Thiamine-deficient rats choosing between a novel diet and a familiar diet invariably showed a marked preference for the novel diet. If the novel diet contained thiamine, this preference was maintained over a 10-day period. If the novel diet was deficient in thiamine, and thiamine was added to the familiar diet, subjects switched from an initial novel diet preference to a familiar diet preference after 3-4 days. Control rats showed no preferences for either diet. The exclusive initial ingestlon of a novel diet may facilitate the development of a sustained, learned preference.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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