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When rats are presented with a compound conditioned stimulus (CS) made up of two taste elements, they are able to form a within-compound association between the individual elements of the CS compound. The present experiment demonstrates that when a taste stimulus is presented in a distinctive context, subjects are able to form a within-compound association between taste and contextual stimuli. These data suggest that within-compound learning represents a general process by which subjects are able to associate stimuli from a variety of modalities. Implications of these data for explanations of taste-potentiated contextual aversions are discussed.
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This research was supported in part by NIH grant NS21655. The authors would like to thank A. J. Nonneman for his helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
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Miller, J.S., McCoy, D.F., Kelly, K.S. et al. Within-compound associations between taste and contextual stimuli. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 25, 124–125 (1987). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330303
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330303