Conditioned taste aversion; behavioral and neural processes.9780195326581 Conditioned taste aversion Conditioned taste aversion is an example of classical conditioning, also called Pavlovian conditioning. Conditioned taste aversion occurs when a subject associates the taste of a certain food with symptoms caused by a toxic, spoiled, or poisonous substance. ; behavioral and neural processes. Ed. by Steve Reilly and Todd R. Schachtman. Oxford U. Press 2009 568 pages $89.50 Hardcover BF261 Researchers in psychological and neurological sciences report on the mechanisms of conditioned taste aversion and its application in research into learning and other fields. Among the topics are drug-induced suppression of conditioned stimulus conditioned stimulus n. A previously neutral stimulus that, after repeated association with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits the response produced by the unconditioned stimulus itself. intake, mechanisms of overshadowing and potentiation potentiation /po·ten·ti·a·tion/ (po-ten?she-a´shun) 1. enhancement of one agent by another so that the combined effect is greater than the sum of the effects of each one alone. 2. posttetanic p. in flavor aversion conditioning, the role of estradiol estradiol /es·tra·di·ol/ (es?trah-di´ol) (es-tra´de-ol) the most potent estrogen in humans; pharmacologically, it is often used in the form of its esters (e.g., e. cypionate, e. in the hormonal modulation of conditioned taste avoidance, and the chemical aversion treatment of alcoholism. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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