Dissociation between the Espinet and perceptual learning effects in flavour aversion conditioning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 221-229

  Prados, José ^a   Hall, Geoffrey ^b   Leonard, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Espinet effect; Flavour aversion; Generalisation; Inhibitory learning; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

FLAVORING AGENT;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FLAVOR; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; MENTAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; RATS; TASTE;

EID: 1442309086     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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