title: Genuinely olfactory preferences conditioned by protein repletion.
abstract: Effects of protein on mild food deprivation in the rat conditioned a relative preference for an intense, insoluble and tasteless odorant. This learned preference for the protein-paired odorant over a non-nutritive-paired odorant was temporarily obliterated by insertion of tubes in the nares to bypass the olfactory mucosa. This demonstrates truly olfactory conditioning, contrary to assertions that gustatory conditioning had not been excluded.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Birmingham U.K.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Baker
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Booth
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005508:Food Deprivation; D005518:Food Preferences; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012903:Smell
chemical_list: D004044:Dietary Proteins