Greater effort boosts the affective taste properties of food

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1711, 2011, Pages 1450-1456

  Johnson, Alexander W ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned reinforcement; Decision making; Incentive; Palatability; Reward value; Utility

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MICROSTRUCTURE; PALATABILITY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; TASTE;

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EID: 79954537029     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1581     Document Type: Article

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