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Aversion Learning and Feeding

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It is now well known that, among vertebrates, learned associations develop between the taste of a food and a subsequent nausea or other negative internal effect, and such a food becomes unacceptable. Characteristic of this type of learning is the relatively long delay between the taste and the visceral effect: often many hours. It is for this reason that food aversion learning has often been considered as a special class of learning (Rozin and Kalat, 1971), although more recently, with more species of animals to compare, there appears to be a continuum from food aversion learning as first described to other types of learned negative associations (MacFarland, 1983).

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    Daniel R. Papaj

  2. Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    Alcinda C. Lewis

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Bernays, E.A. (1993). Aversion Learning and Feeding. In: Papaj, D.R., Lewis, A.C. (eds) Insect Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2814-2_1

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