Perceptual learning in conditioned taste aversion: Analysis of the effect of stimulus presentation.

Authors

  • Gabriel Rodríguez University of York (U.K.)
  • A. Sebastián Lombas Universidad del País Vasco
  • Gumersinda Alonso Universidad del País Vasco

Abstract

Rats received exposure to a compound flavour, AX, and to one element of that compound, X. For group ALT exposure consisted of alternating trials with AX and X; group BLQ-AX-X received a block with all AX trials before a separate block with all X trials; for group BLQ-X-AX this sequence was reversed. Generalization to AX after conditioning with X was less in group ALT than in groups BLQ-AX-X and BLQ-X-AX, and these latter groups did not differ from one another. Implications of these results for the salience modulation hypothesis proposed by G. Hall (2003) are discussed.

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Published

2009-02-06

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Experimental Psychology Section

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