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ArticleBehavioral neuroscience2014

Stability and flexibility of the message carried by semiochemical stimuli, as revealed by devaluation of carbon disulfide followed by social transmission of food preference.

Joost X Maier, Meredith L Blankenship, Nicholas C Barry, Sarah E Richards, Donald B Katz

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Article in Behavioral neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joost X MaierVolen National Center for Complex Systems.
Meredith L BlankenshipVolen National Center for Complex Systems.
Nicholas C BarryVolen National Center for Complex Systems.
Sarah E RichardsVolen National Center for Complex Systems.
Donald B KatzVolen National Center for Complex Systems.
Brandeis University · US

Funding

NEUROSCIENCE: FROM CHANNELS TO BEHAVIORT32MH019929 · NIMH · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI GRIFFITH, LESLIE C · 1994 to 2023
$8.5M
The amygdala-cortical loop as the basis of taste processingR01DC007703 · NIDCD · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI Donald B Katz · 2006 to 2026
$7.1M
NIDCD NIH HHS DC 7703NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC007703NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH019929
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Semiochemicals are volatile compounds that communicate specific meaning between individuals and elicit specific behavioral and/or physiological responses mediated by highly sensitive and highly specific olfactory pathways. Recent work suggests that semiochemicals can activate multiple olfactory pathways at once, but the degree to which parallel pathways activated by the same semiochemical interact and what the behavioral consequences of such interactions are remains a topic of debate. Here, we approached this question behaviorally, investigating whether rats could be trained to avoid carbon disulfide (CS₂; conditional stimulus) via taste-potentiated odor aversion, and asking whether any such learning would have an impact on rats' subsequent use of CS₂ as a semiochemical cue (i.e., in a socially transmitted food preference paradigm). The results show that CS₂-mediated food preference learning is unimpaired by aversions conditioned to CS₂, a result indicating that canonical and semiochemical pathways for the processing of CS₂ function in a largely independent manner.

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Carbon DisulfideConditioning, PsychologicalOlfactory PerceptionPheromonesSocial BehaviorAnimalsAvoidance LearningFood PreferencesMaleRatsRats, Long-EvansCarbon DisulfidePheromones

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PMID24841743
PMCPMC4107047
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