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Assessment of Social Transmission of Food Preferences Behaviors
Published on: January 25, 2018
Social learning of food preferences in rodents: rapid appetitive learning
1McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
|April 23, 2008
Abstract:
A procedure is described for quantitating the transfer of information about inducing increased intake of distinctively-flavored foods or fluids among common laboratory rodents. The method provides a simple, efficient, non-invasive way to produce robust, long-lasting changes in appetitive behaviors of laboratory rodents that can be used in studies of the neuroanatomical, neurochemical or genetic substrates of learning and memory.

