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Cross-modality contrast: Exteroceptive context habituation enhances taste neophobia and conditioned taste aversions

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Mitchell, D; Winter, W; Moffitt, T
Published in: Animal Learning & Behavior
December 1, 1980

The relationship between absolute and relative stimulus novelty was examined within the context of the conditioned taste aversion paradigm in which the relative novelty of the conditioned interoceptive stimulus was manipulated by differential exteroceptive context habituation. Rats received similar isolation histories but either 5 or 30 days of habituation to the test environment prior to treatment. One group was administered lithium chloride following saccharin consumption, a second group was administered isotonic saline following saccharin consumption, and a third group was administered saline after water consumption. The animals habituated for 30 days exhibited greater conditioned avoidance and greater neophobic avoidance of saccharin than did animals habituated for only 5 days. The results are interpreted in terms of a cross-modality stimulus contrast effect which implicates context habituation as an important parameter of both taste neophobia and taste aversion learning. © 1980 Psychonomic Society, Inc.

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Animal Learning & Behavior

DOI

EISSN

1532-5830

ISSN

0090-4996

Publication Date

December 1, 1980

Volume

8

Issue

4

Start / End Page

524 / 528

Related Subject Headings

  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Mitchell, D., Winter, W., & Moffitt, T. (1980). Cross-modality contrast: Exteroceptive context habituation enhances taste neophobia and conditioned taste aversions. Animal Learning & Behavior, 8(4), 524–528. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197764
Mitchell, D., W. Winter, and T. Moffitt. “Cross-modality contrast: Exteroceptive context habituation enhances taste neophobia and conditioned taste aversions.” Animal Learning & Behavior 8, no. 4 (December 1, 1980): 524–28. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197764.
Mitchell D, Winter W, Moffitt T. Cross-modality contrast: Exteroceptive context habituation enhances taste neophobia and conditioned taste aversions. Animal Learning & Behavior. 1980 Dec 1;8(4):524–8.
Mitchell, D., et al. “Cross-modality contrast: Exteroceptive context habituation enhances taste neophobia and conditioned taste aversions.” Animal Learning & Behavior, vol. 8, no. 4, Dec. 1980, pp. 524–28. Scopus, doi:10.3758/BF03197764.
Mitchell D, Winter W, Moffitt T. Cross-modality contrast: Exteroceptive context habituation enhances taste neophobia and conditioned taste aversions. Animal Learning & Behavior. 1980 Dec 1;8(4):524–528.

Published In

Animal Learning & Behavior

DOI

EISSN

1532-5830

ISSN

0090-4996

Publication Date

December 1, 1980

Volume

8

Issue

4

Start / End Page

524 / 528

Related Subject Headings

  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology