Article
Conditioned taste aversion as a learning and memory paradigm.
Behavioural brain research - 1 Nov 2001
Welzl H, D'Adamo P, Lipp H P
Abstract excerpt
Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is a well established learning and memory paradigm in rats and mice that is considered to be a special form of classical conditioning. Rodents--as well as many other species including man--learn to associate a novel taste (CS) with nausea (US), and as a consequence avoid drinking fluid with this specific taste. In contrast to other types of classical conditioning, even CS-US...
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