Taste responses to mixtures: Analytic processing of quality

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 228-235

  Frank, Marion E ^a   Formaker, Bradley K ^a   Hettinger, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; TASTE; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CRICETINAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 0037382489     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.2.228     Document Type: Article

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