Ingestional Aversion Learning: Unique and General Processes

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses on the ingestional aversion learning and presents experiments performed with laboratory rats. Ingestional aversion learning in rats is representative of aversion learning in the feeding system of disparate animals, such as insects and cephalopods. Ingestional aversion learning has unique features because the stimuli involved in this type of conditioning have certain characteristics that are very different from the characteristics of stimuli involved in other types of learning. The unique characteristics of ingestional stimuli may lead to unique conditioning phenomena that are nevertheless governed by generally applicable laws of learning. Alternatively, the unique phenomena observed in ingestional aversion learning may result from the operation of unique learning processes. The chapter discusses the role of ingestion in taste-aversion learning and odor-aversion learning. It is shown that many of the various stimuli that are encountered during the course of ingestion can become associated with toxic post-ingestional consequences.

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