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The potentiation of a conditioned aversion to saccharin by maple odor was examined in a latent inhibition paradigm using weanling, young-adult, and old-age rats. Potentiation of the flavor aversion was age-related. There was a potentiation effect only in young-adult rats. These results are discussed in terms of current explanations of potentiation. It is suggested that when the components of a compound stimulus are in different systems, that is, interoceptive-exteroceptive, conditioning occurs in both systems and one system enhances conditioning in the other. This could explain the apparent reciprocal potentiation in odor/taste pairings as well as age differences in potentiation.
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This research was supported in part by a Summer Research Grant from Susquehanna University to James R. Misanin.
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Peterson, C.S., Valliere, W.A., Misanin, J.R. et al. Age differences in the potentiation of taste aversion by odor cues. Psychobiology 13, 103–106 (1985). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03326505
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