The effect of flavor preexposure upon the acquisition and retention of poison-based taste aversions in deer mice: latent inhibition or partial reinforcement?

An investigation was made of the effects of prior familiarization with sucrose on the acquisition and extinction of LiCl-induced aversions to sucrose by mice of the genus Peromyscus . As in previous studies on other species, it was found that flavor familiarization inhibits the formation of learned taste aversions. However, in contrast to...More