creators_name: Kristal, Mark B.
creators_name: Steuer, Melissa Ann
creators_name: Nishita, J. Ken
creators_name: Peters, Lawrence C.
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-12-03
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:16
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title: Neophobia and water intake after repeated pairings of novel flavors with toxicosis
ispublished: pub
subjects: appl-cog-psy
subjects: behav-anal
subjects: behav-neuro-sci
subjects: bio-ani-behav
subjects: bio-ani-cog
subjects: bio-behav
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-psy
subjects: percep-cog-psy
subjects: physio-psy
subjects: psy-bio
subjects: psy-phys
full_text_status: public
keywords: Neophobia, drinking, taste aversion learning, taste aversion conditioning, Garcia Effect, bait shyness, lithium chloride, toxicosis, ingestion, classical conditioning, flavor aversion learning
abstract: The ability of rats (a) to acquire a generalized neophobia and (b) to maintain total daily fluid intake (by increasing intake of plain water) during the neophobia, was assessed. Rats trained to drink on a 23 1/2-hr water deprivation schedule were presented with a series of novel-flavored drinking solutions at 4-day intervals. Fifteen min of exposure to the novel flavor was followed first by 15 min of access to plain water, and then by an injection of lithium chloride. A saline-injected group and a noncontingent lithium chloride-injected group served as controls. Re-exposure to flavors did not occur between presentations of novel flavors. The rats in the group receiving novel flavors paired with toxicosis not only showed suppressed intake of all subsequent novel flavors after several pairings, but also eventually showed suppressed intake of plain water, which was limited to the days of novel-flavor presentation.
date: 1980
date_type: published
publication: Physiology & Behavior
volume: 24
number: 5
pagerange: 979-982
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Kristal, Mark B. and Steuer, Melissa Ann and Nishita, J. Ken and Peters, Lawrence C.  (1980) Neophobia and water intake after repeated pairings of novel flavors with toxicosis.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/762/1/tac.htm