Conditioned taste aversions: A bibliography

Abstract

A bibliographic list of 403 articles dealing specifically with conditioned taste aversions from 1950-1975 is provided. In addition, the references are classified according to six major categories in a topical index. The major categories are Parameters of Conditioning, Physiological Manipulations, Pharmacological Interventions, Methodology, Comparative, and General Information. References were obtained from individual journals in psychology, physiology, pharmacology, and animal behavior and were supplemented and extended by Psychological Abstracts. A final source of references was provided by individual researchers who contributed preprints and reprints.If consumption of a particular substance is followed by poison, the rat decreases consumption of that substance on a subsequent exposure. This phenomenon has been defined as a conditioned taste aversion---conditioned, because of the necessity of an association between the substance and poison; aversion, because the rat apparently avoids consumption of the previously poisoned substance; taste, because this avoidance is a reaction to the taste of the previously poisoned substance. Although initially demonstrated in rats poisoned by X-irradiation, conditioned taste aversions have subsequently been extended to include a wide range of taste stimuli, species, and toxins. More recently, the biological adaptiveness, associative nature, and the underlying physiological and pharmacological mechanisms of conditioned taste aversions have been studied. These new approaches and interests have provided a wide range of topics in conditioned taste aversions as well as a rapidly growing literature. The most recent application of conditioned taste aversions to addiction and predation is further expanding this range.The present bibliography is an attempt to bring the literature from 1950 to 1975 into a workable list. Only articles specifically addressing conditioned taste aversions are included. By this restriction, a number of interesting and importantly related topics have been excluded. More specifically, these topics are mimicry, alcoholism, and specific hungers. These topics are included only when they are directly examined in relation to conditioned taste aversions.In addition to the alphabetical listing, the articles are cross-referenced in a topical index according to six major categories. These categories should provide anThe authors would like to thank the many colleagues who generously contributed information for this bibliography. The authors especially thank V. M. LoLordo for his time and helpful suggestions throughout this project. Requests for reprints should be sent to Anthony L. Riley, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4Jl. An incomplete listing of convention papers, doctoral dissertations, and master's theses are also available upon request. empirical base of the specific parameters in which conditioned taste aversions operate. A listing of related articles and books, as well as literature and theoretical reviews, should provi...

Chlordiazepoxide-induced reversal of an amphetamine-established aversion: Dipsogenic effects

“…As demonstrated by Cappell and LeBlanc (1973), animals readily acquire an aversion to a previously poisoned solution. Although typically resistant to a variety of experimental manipulations (Riley & Clarke, 1977), taste aversions are substantially weakened by procedures, both behavioral and physiological, which increase the rat's baseline consumption, e.g., increased deprivation (Grote & Brown, 1973), schedule-induced polydipsia (Roll, Schaeffer, & Smith, 1969), and ventromedial hypothalamic lesions (Gold & Proulx, 1972). This parallel suggests that chlordiazepoxide's attenuating effect on taste aversions may be a function of this peripheral dipsogenic effect and relatively independent of the proposed central, dis inhibitory or antipunishment effect on suppressed behavior (Cappell & LeBlanc, 1973;Margules & Stein, 1967).…”

Learned flavor preferences based on caloric outcome

“…For nearly three decades (see Riley & Clarke, 1977, for a bibliography), a copious liturature has been built on studies using a tasty solution or food paired with a sickness-inducing agent (usually lithium) in which animals learn to avoid the sickness-paired taste. This kind of learning is easy to get and hard to extinguish.…”

Conditioned taste aversion in Philippine rice rats (R. r. mindanensis): Comparisons among drugs, dosages, modes of administration, and sexes

“…This effect was greatest at the 368-mg/kg dosage, but was also evident to a relatively lesser degree at the lOS-mg/kg dose. The lOS-mg/kg dose range did not produce an extreme level of CTA for the injection group, even though a dosage slightly above this range (125 mg/kg) is a standard level used in most studies with albino rats (Riley & Clarke, 1977). The sustained 2-h saccharin-flavored water exposure period before injection could have been a factor producing this result; many studies have employed shorter (10-20 min) exposures before injection (cf, Bond & Di Giusto, 1975;Deutsch, 1978).…”