Context dependency of conditioned aversions to familiar and novel fluids

• Published in: Learning and motivation Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 113 - 130
• Main Authors: Ishii, Kiyoshi, Iguchi, Yoshio, Sawa, Kosuke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Elsevier Inc 01.05.2006; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Animal Behavior; Animals; Conditioned aversion; Conditioning; Context dependency; Context Effect; Discrimination Learning; Fluids; Learning; Nausea; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Occasion setting; Rat; Rodents; Water; Occasion setting; Context dependency; Rat; Conditioned aversion

Using a context discrimination procedure and rats as the subjects, the formation of context-dependent aversions to novel and familiar fluids was investigated. Experiment 1 revealed that context dependency could be established to a novel fluid (saccharin) after three cycles of context discrimination...