Sex affects the initial strength but not the extinction of poison-based taste aversions in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdi)

An examination of the effect of sex upon taste-aversion learning in deer mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus bairdi ) found that (a) sex has no apparent effect upon either the acquisition or the extinction of a LiCl-induced aversion to sucrose solution if the animals are tested while fluid deprived, but that (b) if the animals are tested under ...More