Taste aversion learning in young and adult rats.
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 91 (5) , 1168-1178
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0077382
Abstract
Rat pups and adults were compared on their ability to learn taste aversions with 1 and 2-bottle tests, 2 different illness-inducing agents and flavors and varying taste-illness delays. Rat pups learned taste aversions with 1- or 2-bottle tests, but only with short taste-illness delays. Delays of 60 min were sufficient to block taste aversion learning in pups. Pups failed to demonstrate neophobia to a novel taste. Pups probably forget taste information more rapidly than adults, perhaps because taste information is not so salient for pups as for adults.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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