Flavor learning in weanling rats and its retention

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 417-422

  Ueji, Kayoko ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a  

^a KIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aversion; Development; Flavor; Infancy; Learning; Preference

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CHERRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEEDING; FLAVOR; GRAPE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FOOD PREFERENCES; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUCROSE; TASTE; WEANING;

EID: 84862812252     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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