ArticlePhysiology & behavior2012
Taste neophobia and palatability: the pleasure of drinking.
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- Activation patterns in male and female forebrain areas during habituation to food and context novelty.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Licking microstructure behavior classifies a spectrum of emotional states in mice.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2025Article
- Distinct competitive impacts of palatability of taste stimuli on sampling dynamics during a preference test.Behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Expression of c-Fos following voluntary ingestion of a novel or familiar taste in rats.Brain research · 2023Article
- Unconditioned and conditioned anxiolytic effects of Sodium Valproate on flavor neophobia and fear conditioning.PloS one · 2023Article
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- Perturbation of amygdala/somatostatin-nucleus of the solitary tract projections reduces sensitivity to quinine in a brief-access test.Brain research · 2022Article
- Cortical taste processing evolves through benign taste exposures.Behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- The effects of novelty on food consumption in male and female rats.Physiology & behavior · 2020Article
- Excitatory/inhibitory balance across ontogeny contributes to age-specific behavioral outcomes of ethanol-like challenge in conditioned taste aversion.Developmental psychobiology · 2019Article
- How Can We Assess Positive Welfare in Ruminants?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Review
- Facilitation and retardation of flavor preference conditioning following prior exposure to the flavor conditioned stimulus.Learning & behavior · 2019Article
- Inhibiting gustatory thalamus or medial amygdala has opposing effects on taste neophobia.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2018Article
- The role of the gustatory cortex in incidental experience-evoked enhancement of later taste learning.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2018Article
- Conditioned taste aversions: From poisons to pain to drugs of abuse.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Article
- Within-session decrement of the emission of licking bursts following reward devaluation in rats licking for sucrose.PloS one · 2017Article
- Memory-dependent effects on palatability in mice.Physiology & behavior · 2016Article
- Preexposure to salty and sour taste enhances conditioned taste aversion to novel sucrose.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2016Article
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Abstract
Taste neophobia is manifested behaviorally as lower intake of a novel, potentially dangerous tastant relative to the same tastant when it is perceived as safe and familiar. To further characterize this phenomenon, microstructural analysis of lick patterns was used to track the transition from novel to familiar for three tastants: saccharin, quinine and Polycose. The results revealed that in addition to an increase in the amount consumed (for saccharin and quinine but not Polycose), cluster size (an index of palatability) became larger as familiarity with the benign tastants increased. The current finding suggests that the pleasure of drinking increases as the novel, potentially dangerous tastant becomes accepted as safe.
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