On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:07:22 -0800, Claudia Stanny wrote: > >OK - here is a recent citation for this story: > >Marks, I. (2002). Innate and learned fears are at opposite >ends of a continuum of associability. Behavior Research and >Therapy, 40, 165-167.
Actually, that should be *Behaviour* Research and Therapy. >This article also describes some counter-examples in which taste >aversions are not acquired to a recent novel flavor. > >Google scholar produces several hits, but if you don't include >Seligman in the search you get lots of citations from chemistry >and food science. . . some with receipes. Recipes? Are they for research or entertainment purposes? ;-) A quick search of Medline and PsycInfo turn up a few other interesting reports. The abstracts of two are provided below and they provide some additional indication of how complicated the phenomena of associating a particular "taste" with an "illness state" can be. -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************* Authors Nakajima S. Ka H. Imada J. Institution Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan. Title Summation of overshadowing and latent inhibition in rats' conditioned taste aversion: scapegoat technique works for familiar meals. Source Appetite. 33(3):299-307, 1999 Dec. Abstract In rats' taste aversion learning, presentation of another taste with a target taste alleviates aversion for the target taste (overshadowing), and exposure of a target taste prior to its conditioning alleviates aversion for that taste (latent inhibition). The present study demonstrated summation of these effects, resulting in the least aversion in the rats that had received both overshadowing and latent inhibition treatments. The finding that overshadowing and latent inhibition summate is contrary to the prediction by the comparator hypothesis that they counteract, as recently reported in conditioned suppression of licking in thirsty rats. The present result supports the employment of the so-called "scapegoat technique" in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy after taking familiar meals. Copyright 1999 Academic Press. *********************************************** Authors Loy I. Hall G. Institution University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. Title Taste aversion after ingestion of lithium chloride: an associative analysis. Source Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology B. 55(4):365-80, 2002 Oct. Abstract In five experiments with rats we examined the aversion established by consumption of a solution of lithium chloride (LiCl). Experiment 1 showed that consumption of LiCl established an aversion to saline (NaCl). Experiment 2 showed that the size of the aversion was reduced in rats given pre-exposure to saline (a latent inhibition effect). Experiment 3 showed that experience of a sucrose-saline compound prior to consumption of LiCl generated an aversion to sucrose (a sensory preconditioning effect). Experiments 4 and 5 examined the effects produced by consumption of a sucrose-LiCl compound and demonstrated reciprocal overshadowing between the two tastes. These results confirm that consumption of LiCl establishes an aversion to the taste of this substance. Their implications for the use of orally consumed LiCl as a technique for the control of predatory behaviour are discussed. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
