One-drop licking in rats.

Hulse, Stewart H.; Suter, Steve

doi:10.1037/h0026339

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“…In contrast to the above results, a previous study using rats reported that a drop of sucrose did not elicit more ALs than a drop of water (16). Consequently, we repeated the above experiment only using the same concentrations employed in that publication (water, 8% sucrose, and 32% sucrose; In a separate set of experiments, we compared the ALs for water, 20% sucrose, and 32% sucrose (Fig.…”

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“…4). In this regard, we suggest that the more rapid response to the smaller volume may arise because of increased attention paid to this smaller sensory input or because a small volume less strongly activates the consummatory reflex (16).…”

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“…Having shown that increasing the reward did not stop consummatory licking, we tested whether increasing the volume of the water stop signal would influence the ALs (16). Three different volumes of water (5, 10, and 20 l) were used as stop signals (Fig.…”

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Speed and accuracy of taste identification and palatability: impact of learning, reward expectancy, and consummatory licking

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Villavicencio

Simon

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American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comp

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Speed and accuracy of taste identification and palatability: impact of learning, reward expectancy, and consummatory licking

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Villavicencio

Simon

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“…The rat's licking behavior is capable of numerous adjustments which depend upon the properties of the solution being licked (see Corbit & Luschei, 1969;Hulse, 1966;Hulse & Suter, 1968Petrie & Hulse, 1971). Allison (1971) compared a relatively visco us liquid food (Nutrament) with a less viscous, non nutritive saccharin solution during a 60-min test session.…”

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Macro- and microbehavioral response to viscosity among rats licking saccharin

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Allison

1972

Psychon Sci

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Effects of viscosity upon licking were studied by providing rats with thick and thin .4% saccharin solutions in separate 1-h sessions. Volumetric intake{lick was greater for the thin than for the thick solution and was the only measure affected by viscosity. As the session progressed, the two solutions caused (1) comparable satiation effects, as evidenced by comparable decreases in several indices of the average rate of ingestion; (2) comparable decreases in the average duration of the lick; and (3) no reliable change in the average volumetric intake of the lick. The results were related to earlier comparisons of liquid food and saccharin and indicated that the differences produced by the latter solutions are not fully attributable to their differential viscosity.

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“…making it unlikely that the same rhythm would he maintained during pauses as during overt licking. Other workers (Hulse & Suter, 1968;Schaeffer & Premack, 1961) suggest that licking is governed by a reflex. If this is so, then the basis for triggering the reflex of licking (tongue touching water) would be absent or drastically modified with the rat's tongue inside its mouth during the pause.…”

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Scaling the duration of short pauses in licking behavior of rats and mice: A first approximation to a basic pause-scaling unit

Small

Lillard

1973

Animal Learning and Behavior

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Two studies are reported in which short pauses from the drinking behavior of four hooded rats (rat study) and four mice (mouse study) were analyzed. Both of these studies supported the hypothesis that the interlick interval (II) can be used as a unit (PC) for scaling short pauses in licking behavior during water drinking. The outcomes of these studies arc seen as suggesting that the factor responsible for the constancy of the II is also functioning during short pauses and is responsible for the tendency herein reported for pauses to be scaled by the PU, One may categorize biological rhythms, for convenience, into those which exhibit longer term cyclic behavior (such as seasonal or diurnal cycles) and phenomena with drastically shorter periods such as brain waves, heart rate, and water licking to name a few. At times we find certain biological activities, in both the short period and the long period categories, which exhibit a relatively constant periodic rate, suggesting that the animal and plant kingdoms have at their disposal biological "clocks," These clocks may rather accurately control certain processes which are facilitated by a stable rhythm of the appropriate periodic duration. Examples of obvious value to the animal world are the timing provided to insects in regulating their life cycle and the regulation of body metabolism in animals by diurnal cycles (Bunning, 1967). It is not so obvious, however, what function is served by the periodicity found in some of the behaviors exhibiting shorter periods. For instance, Stellar and Hill (1952) first established that rats, across a very wide range of water-deprivation levels. drink water at the relatively constant rate of 6-7 licks per sec. One might reasonably think that it would be desirable that a rat. when thirsty or in danger, be able to drink faster than it drinks when it is satiated. The fact is. however. that the satiated and the thirsty rat both drink at practically the same rate, Other studies (for instance, Keehn & Arnold, 1960) have replicated this remarkable stability of the lick rate for rats and also for cats (Schaeffer & Premack, 1961) and various other species (Boice, 1967), Control mechanismsunderlying such biological timing are not presently identified. Komisaruk (1970), in exploring the relation between rat theta activity, vibrissa t\\ itches, and heart rate, has suggested "the existence of *Portions of the preliminary work on this study were done during the first author's tenure as a predoctoral fellow under USPHS Fellowship IFlMll·30 630-01Al. Some equipment used in early stages was loaned under USPHS Grant NH 12120-02 to Eliot Hearst. I thank Robert S. Daniel, Irwin D. Nahinsky, and David Premack for helpful suggestions or comments during preliminary work on this study. 73 a single limbic pacemaker mechanism for a wide variety of rhythmic behavior patterns." Consider that if there were a single central pacemaker providing a time base for a variety of behaviors, that pacemaker would be expected to continue to run at least at all times whe...

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One-drop licking in rats.

Cited by 24 publications

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Speed and accuracy of taste identification and palatability: impact of learning, reward expectancy, and consummatory licking

Speed and accuracy of taste identification and palatability: impact of learning, reward expectancy, and consummatory licking

Macro- and microbehavioral response to viscosity among rats licking saccharin

Scaling the duration of short pauses in licking behavior of rats and mice: A first approximation to a basic pause-scaling unit

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