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Effects of swim stress on latent inhibition using a conditioned taste aversion procedure
Shawn Smith1, Sarah Fieser, Jennifer Jones
1University of Missouri, USA.
Abstract:
Rats were used to examine the effects of inescapable swim stress on latent inhibition using a conditioned taste aversion procedure. Subjects were subjected to inescapable swim after each of three saccharin taste preexposures and saccharin was later paired with LiCl. The ability of swim to influence latent inhibition was assessed on subsequent saccharin test trials. Swim stress significantly attenuated latent inhibition. The implications of these results regarding the effects of swim stress on conditioned taste aversion are discussed.
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