Flavor avoidance learning based on missing calories but not on palatability reduction

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 542-550

  Boakes, Robert A ^a   Patterson, Angela E ^a   Kwok, Dorothy W S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Avoidance; Flavor; Maltodextrin; Palatability; Rats

Indexed keywords

FLAVORING AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CALORIC INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TASTE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ENERGY INTAKE; FLAVORING AGENTS; FOOD PREFERENCES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84870859856     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-012-0074-6     Document Type: Article

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