Latent inhibition of conditioned disgust reactions in rats.
The present experiments, using the latent inhibition (LI) paradigm, evaluated the effect of nonreinforced exposure to saccharin on the acquisition of an LiCl-induced saccharin aversion as measured by conditioned disgust reactions in the taste reactivity test and conditioned taste avoidance in a consumption test. When rats were preexposed to saccharin by bottle exposure (Experiments 1 and 3), LI was evidenced only by conditioned taste avoidance (bottle testing), but not by conditioned disgust reactions (intraoral [IO] testing). On the other hand, when rats were preexposed to saccharin by IO infusion (Experiments 2 and 3), LI was evidenced only by conditioned disgust reactions, but not by conditioned taste avoidance. Experiment 4 showed that LI of conditioned disgust reactions does not appear to be affected by a context shift from preexposure to testing phases. These results show that the expression of LI of both conditioned taste avoidance and conditioned disgust reactions depends critically on a common method of flavor exposure during preexposure and testing.
López
Matías
M
Departamento de Psicología, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. mlopez@uniovi.es
Gasalla
Patricia
P
Vega
Mercedes
M
Limebeer
Cheryl L
CL
Rock
Erin M
EM
Tuerke
Katharine J
KJ
Bedard
Holly
H
Parker
Linda A
LA
D000818:Animals; D001245:Association Learning; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D018021:Lithium Chloride / Q000633:toxicity; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012439:Saccharin; D013649:Taste
D012439:Saccharin; D018021:Lithium Chloride
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