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  3. Taste stimuli: a behavioral categorization

Taste stimuli: a behavioral categorization

  • Science. 1968 Aug 16;161(3842):708-10. doi: 10.1126/science.161.3842.708.
D N Tapper,  B P Halpern
PMID: 5664512 DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3842.708
Abstract

The selective patterns of generalization to various chemicals, obtained in rats after radiation-induced gustatory-avoidance conditioning against single chemicals, were used to evaluate qualitative similarities among taste stimuli. DL-Alanine, glycine, and sodium saccharin were classed together, but not with D-glucose or potassium chloride. Groupings such as these may serve as a basis for determining the dimensions along which taste quality is represented.

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