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Rats ingested odor-alone and/or odor-taste solutions and were subsequently made ill by lithium chloride injections. Following poisoning, aversions to the odor stimuli were assessed using a two-bottle choice test. The results failed to provide clear evidence of odor-taste potentiation for all the stimuli we employed, regardless of the nature of the odor CSs administered and the use of both within- and between-group analyses. These findings suggest that previous reports of odor-taste potentiation may be somewhat tenuous, and that odor saliency and order of conditioning may play more important roles than potentiation does in the development of odor aversion.
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This research was partially supported by NSF Grant No. BNS 7820678. We wish to thank Jeffery Carlson, Joseph P. DeCola, Mark Plonsky, Michael E. Abbot, and Anne Stilman for their assistance in this project.
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Lashley, R.L., Rosellini, R.A. Conditioning of odors in compound with taste is a function of factors other than potentiation. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 24, 159–162 (1986). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330533
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