Evidence that the sweetness of odors depends on experience in rats

Chemical Senses

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 767-776

  Gautam, Shree Hari ^a,b   Verhagen, Justus V ^a,b  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

COA; Conditioned odor aversion; CTA; Flavor; Multisensory integration; Paired experience; Perceptual learning; Taste acquisition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVOR; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMELLING; SWEETNESS; TASTE AVERSION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; ODORS; PERCEPTION; RATS; SMELL; TASTE;

RATTUS;

EID: 78649353049     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq075     Document Type: Article

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