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The effects of taste extinction on ingestional potentiation in weanling rats |
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| Authors: | Stephen F Davis Michael R Best Cathy A Grover Scott A Bailey Bobby L Freeman Mechelle A Mayleben |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Emporia State University, 66801, Emporia, KS 2. Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, 75275, Dallas, TX 3. Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas |
| Abstract: | Four experiments investigated taste potentiation in weanling rats. In Experiment 1, the animals that drank a conditioning compound of denatonium and saccharin consumed significantly less on the test than controls that drank only saccharin during conditioning. This enhanced saccharin aversion was decremented by postconditioning extinction to denatonium in Experiment 2, and no generalization of saccharin aversions to the denatonium was observed in Experiment 3. Extinction of either saccharin or denatonium aversions after compound conditioning was shown in Experiment 4 to result in substantial decrements in aversions to the compound. The relationship of these outcomes to a multiple-association account of potentiation and to the role of discrimination processes in ingestional learning is discussed. |
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