Social learning of food preferences in rodents: rapid appetitive learning.
A procedure is described for quantitating the transfer of information about inducing increased intake of distinctively-flavored foods or fluids among common laboratory rodents. The method provides a simple, efficient, non-invasive way to produce robust, long-lasting changes in appetitive behaviors of laboratory rodents that can be used in studies of the neuroanatomical, neurochemical or genetic substrates of learning and memory.
Galef
Bennett G
BG
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D001525:Behavioral Sciences / Q000379:methods*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D004032:Diet; D005518:Food Preferences; D007858:Learning; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000379:methods*; D012377:Rodentia; D012919:Social Behavior; D013997:Time Factors