Food Aversion Learning

1. Front Matter

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2. Learning as a General Process with an Emphasis on Data from Feeding Experiments

   • Sam Revusky

   Pages 1-71

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3. Biological Significance of Food Aversion Learning

   • James W. Kalat

   Pages 73-103

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4. Stimulus Characteristics in Food Aversion Learning

   • Marvin Nachman, Joan Rauschenberger, John H. Ashe

   Pages 105-131

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5. Gustatory Avoidance Conditioning by Drugs of Abuse

   • Howard Cappell, A. E. LeBlanc

   Pages 133-167

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6. Suppression of Interspecific Aggression Using Toxic Reinforcers

   • N. W. Milgram, Mauro Caudarella, Lester Krames

   Pages 169-194

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7. Koalas, Men, and Other Conditioned Gastronomes

   • John Garcia, Walter G. Hankins, Janet D. Coil

   Pages 195-218

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8. Physiological Mechanisms of Conditioned Food Aversion

   • J. Bureš, O. Burešová

   Pages 219-255

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9. Back Matter

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During the past 10 years, the study of learned aversions to foods has become one of the most' 'popular" areas of research in animal psychology. Learned aversions to foods are typically produced in the laboratory by first allowing an animal to eat (or drink) some distinctively novel substance and then making the animal' 'ill" in some way, most frequently by either giving it an injection of some "illness" -producing drug such as lithium chloride or by exposing it to a toxic dose of radiation. When an animal that has been treated in this way is subsequently given another opportunity to ingest the same or a similar substance, one usually observes that it will either totally avoid ingesting the substance or that it will consume less of it than a control animal that was not made ill after previously consuming the same substance. This form of learning has attracted the interest of many researchers because there are two apparently striking differences in the acquisition of food aversions and the acquisition of other types of associative learning.

• Validation
• aggression
• associative learning
• electroencephalography (EEG)
• learning
• memory
• psychology
• research
• sociology

• University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  N. W. Milgram, Lester Krames, Thomas M. Alloway

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