Title: Mechanisms of Overshadowing and Potentiation in Flavor Aversion Conditioning
Abstract: Abstract Conditioned taste aversions (CTAs) are a form of classical conditioning in which an organism experiences an edible substance (conditioned stimulus or CS) followed by an illness-producing event (unconditioned stimulus or US). As a result of this CS–US pairing, when the organism subsequently reencounters the CS, it will demonstrate a reluctance to consume that food (the conditioned response or CR). One of the enduring questions in associative learning in general is whether CTA operates under the exact rules as other types of classical conditioning such as fear conditioning and conditioned eyeblink (Domjan, 1980; Logue, 1979). This question was originally explored through such manipulations as cue-to-consequence learning (Garcia & Koelling, 1966) and long-delay learning (Garcia, Ervin, & Koelling, 1966), but subsequent research found that these effects could be accommodated in other types of classical conditioning (see Bouton, 2006, for review). Nonetheless, one area in which CTA consistently appears to operate by different mechanisms is in compound conditioning.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-10-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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