Hostname: page-component-669899f699-swprf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-30T22:37:33.616Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

How food preferences are learned: laboratory animal models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Anthony Sclafani
Anthony Sclafani
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Symposium on ‘Basic mechanisms of food preference and liking’
Information
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , July 1995 , pp. 419 - 427
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1995

References

Ackroff, K. & Sclafani, A. (1991). Flavor preferences conditioned by sugars: Rats learn to prefer glucose over fructose. Physiology and Behavior 50, 815–824.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ackroff, K. & Sclafani, A. (1994). Flavor preferences conditioned by intragastric infusions of dilute Polycose solutions. Physiology and Behavior 55, 957–962.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Baker, B. J. & Booth, D. A. (1989). Preference conditioning by concurrent diets with delayed proportional reinforcement. Physiology and Behavior 46, 585–590.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Baker, B. J., Booth, D. A., Duggan, J. P. & Gibson, E. L. (1987). Protein appetite demonstrated: Learned specificity of protein-cue preference to protein need in adult rats. Nutrition Research 7, 481–487.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beck, M. & Galef, B. G. Jr (1989). Social influences on the selection of a protein-sufficient diet by Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of Comparative Psychology 103, 132–139.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blusk, D. & Sclafani, A. (1993). Postingestive conditioning of flavor preferences from different infusion sites. Proceedings of the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting 64, 42.Google Scholar
Boakes, R. A. & Lubart, T. (1988). Enhanced preferences for a flavour following reversed flavour glucose pairing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 40, 49–62.Google ScholarPubMed
Booth, D. A. (1985). Food-conditioned eating preferences and aversions with interoceptive elements: conditioned appetites and satieties. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 443, 22–41.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Booth, D. A., Stoloff, R. & Nicholls, J. (1974). Dietary flavor acceptance in infant rats established by association with effects of nutrient composition. Physiological Psychology 2, 313–319.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Braveman, N. S. & Bronstein, P. (editors) (1985). Experimental assessments of clinical applications of conditioned food aversions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 443, 1–441.Google Scholar
Bronstein, P. M., Levine, M. J. & Marcus, M. (1975). A rat's first bite: The nongenetic cross-generational transfer of information. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 89, 295–298.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Capaldi, E. D. (1993). Conditioned food preferences. In The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 28, pp. 1–33 [Medin, D., editor]. New York: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Capaldi, E. D., Campbell, D. H., Sheffer, J. D. & Bradford, J. P. (1987 a). Conditioned flavor preferences based on delayed caloric consequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 13, 150–155.Google ScholarPubMed
Capaldi, E. D., Campbell, D. H., Sheffer, J. D. & Bradford, J. P. (1987 b). Non-reinforcing effects of giving ‘dessert’ in rats. Appetite 9, 99–112.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Capaldi, E. D. & Sheffer, J. D. (1992). Contrast and reinforcement in consumption. Learning and Motivation 23, 63–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Capretta, P. J. & Rawls, L. E. III (1974). Establishment of a flavor preference in rats: Importance of nursing and weaning experience. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 86, 670–673.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Deutsch, J. A., Molina, F. & Puerto, A. (1976). Conditioned taste aversion caused by palatable nontoxic nutrients. Behavioral Biology 16, 161–174.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Deutsch, J. A. & Wang, M.-L. (1977). The stomach as a site for rapid nutrient reinforcement sensors. Science 195, 89–90.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Drucker, D. B., Ackroff, K. & Sclafani, A. (1993). Flavor preference produced by intragastric Polycose infusions in rats using a concurrent conditioning procedure. Physiology and Behavior 54, 351–355.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Drucker, D. B., Ackroff, K. & Sclafani, A. (1994). Nutrient-conditioned flavor preference and acceptance in rats: Effects of deprivation state and nonreinforcement. Physiology and Behavior 56, 701–707.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Elizalde, G. & Sclafani, A. (1988). Starch-based conditioned flavor preferences in rats: Influence of taste, calories, and CS-US delay. Appetite 11, 179–200.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Elizalde, G. & Sclafani, A. (1990 a). Fat appetite in rats: Flavor preferences conditioned by nutritive and non-nutritive oil emulsions. Appetite 15, 189–197.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Elizalde, G. & Sclafani, A. (1990 b). Flavor preferences conditioned by intragastric Polycose: A detailed analysis using an electronic esophagus preparation. Physiology and Behavior 47, 63–77.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Galef, B. G. Jr (1981). Development of olfactory control of feeding-site selection in rat pups. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 95, 615–622.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Galef, B. G. Jr (1983). Utilization by Norway rats (R. norvegicus) of multiple messages concerning distant foods. Journal of Comparative Psychology 97, 364–371.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Galef, B. G. Jr (1987). Social influences on the identification of toxic foods by Norway rats. Animal Learning and Behavior 15, 327–332.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Galef, B. G. Jr (1989). Enduring social enhancement of rats' preferences for the palatable and the piquant. Appetite 13, 81–92.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Galef, B. G. Jr (1991). Social factors in diet selection and poison avoidance by Norway Rats: A brief review. In Appetite and Nutrition, pp. 177–194 [Friedman, M. I., Tordoff, M. G. and Kare, M. R., editors]. New York: Marcel Dckker.Google Scholar
Galef, B. G. Jr & Clark, M. M. (1972). Mother's milk and adult presence: two factors determining initial dietary selection by weanling rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 78, 220–225.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Galef, B. G. Jr & Heiber, L. (1976). Role of residual olfactory cues in the determination of feeding site selection and exploration patterns of domestic rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 90, 727–739.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Galef, B. G. Jr & Henderson, P. W. (1972). Mother's milk: a determinant of the feeding preferences of weaning rat pups. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 78, 213–219.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Galef, B. G. Jr, Mason, J. R., Preti, G. & Bean, N. J. (1988). Carbon disulfide: a semiochemical mediating socially-induced diet choice in rats. Physiology and Behavior 42, 119–124.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Galef, B. G. Jr & Wigmore, S. W. (1983). Transfer of information concerning distant foods: A laboratory investigation of the ‘information-centre’ hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 31, 748–758.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hepper, P. G. (1988). Adaptive fetal learning: prenatal exposure to garlic affects postnatal preferences. Animal Behaviour 36, 935–936.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Holman, E. W. (1975). Immediate and delayed reinforcers for flavor preferences in the rat. Learning and Motivation 6, 91–100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Holman, G. L. (1968). Intragastric reinforcement effect. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 69, 432–441.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Horn, C. C., Mitchell, J. C. & Martinson, F. A. (1993). The effects of selective vagotomy on conditioned flavor-nutrient preferences in rats. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19, 816.Google Scholar
Kamil, A. C. & Sargent, T. D. (editors) (1981). Foraging Behavior: Ecological, Ethological, and Psychological Approaches. New York: Garland STPM Press.Google Scholar
Le Magnen, J. & Tallon, S. (1968). Préférence alimentaire de jeune rat induite par l'allaitement maternel. (Feeding preferences of the young rat induced by mother's milk). Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Société de Biologie 162, 387–390.Google Scholar
Leon, M. (1987). Plasticity of olfactory output circuits related to early olfactory learning. Trends in Neuroscience 10, 434–438.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lucas, F. & Sclafani, A. (1989). Flavor preferences conditioned by intragastric fat infusions in rats. Physiology and Behavior 46, 403–412.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mehiel, R. & Bolles, R. C. (1988). Learned flavor preferences based on calories are independent of initial hedonic value. Animal Learning and Behavior 16, 383–387.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Melcer, T. & Alberts, J. R. (1989). Recognition of food by individual, food-naive, weaning rats (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of Comparative Psychology 103, 243–251.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pedersen, P. E. & Blass, E. M. (1982). Prenatal and postnatal determinants of the 1st suckling episode in albino rats. Developmental Psychobiology 15, 349–355.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pérez, C., Ackroff, K. & Sclafani, A. (1994). Carbohydrate- and protein-conditioned flavor preferences in rats: Effects of nutrient preloads. Appetite 23, 317.Google Scholar
Pérez, C. & Sclafani, A. (1991). Cholecystokinin conditions flavor preferences in rats. American Journal of Physiology 260, R179–R185.Google ScholarPubMed
Piquard, F., Schaefer, A. & Haberey, P. (1975). Effets de la perfusion de glucose, d'Acides amines ou de lipides sur le choix alimentaire chez le rat (Effects of glucose, amino acid or lipid infusion on dietary self-selection in the rat). Physiology and Behavior 15, 41–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Posadas-Andrews, A. & Roper, T. J. (1983). Social transmission of food preferences in adult rats. Animal Behaviour 31, 265–271.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Puerto, A., Deutsch, J. A., Molina, F. & Roll, P. (1976). Rapid rewarding effects of intragastric injections. Behavioral Biology 18, 123–134.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ramirez, I. (1994). Stimulation of fluid intake by carbohydrates: interaction between taste and calories. American Journal of Physiology 266, R682–R687.Google ScholarPubMed
Rozin, P. & Vollmeche, T. A. (1986). Food likes and dislikes. Annual Review of Nutrition 6, 433–456.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sclafani, A. (1991). Conditioned food preferences. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 29, 256–260.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sclafani, A. & Ackroff, K. (1994). Glucose- and fructose-conditioned flavor preferences in rats: Taste versus postingestive conditioning. Physiology and Behavior 56, 399–405.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sclafani, A., Cardieri, C., Tucker, K., Blusk, D. & Ackroff, K. (1993). Intragastric glucose but not fructose conditions robust flavor preferences in rats. American Journal of Physiology 265, R320–R325.Google Scholar
Sclafani, A. & Nissenbaum, J. W. (1988). Robust conditioned flavor preference produced by intragastric starch infusions in rats. American Journal of Physiology 255, R672–R675.Google ScholarPubMed
Sclafani, A., Nissenbaum, J. W. & Ackroff, K. (1994). Learned preferences for real-fed and sham-fed Polycose in rats: Interaction of taste, postingestive reinforcement, and satiety. Physiology and Behavior 56, 331–337.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sherman, J. E., Hickis, C. F., Rice, A. G., Rusiniak, K. W. & Garcia, J. (1983). Preferences and aversions for stimuli paired with ethanol in hungry rats. Animal Learning and Behavior 11, 101–106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Simbayi, L. C., Boakes, R. A. & Burton, M. J. (1986). Can rats learn to associate a flavour with the delayed delivery of food? Appetite 7, 41–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smotherman, W. P. (1982). In utero chemosensory experience alters taste preferences and corticosterone responsiveness. Behavioral and Neural Biology 36, 61–68.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tordoff, M. G. (1991). Metabolic basis of learned food preferences. In Appetite and Nutrition, pp. 239–260 [Friedman, M. I., Tordoff, M. G. and Kare, M. R., editors]. New York: Marcel Dekker.Google Scholar
Tordoff, M. G. & Friedman, M. I. (1986). Hepatic-portal glucose infusions decrease food intake and increase food preference. American Journal of Physiology 251, R192–R196.Google ScholarPubMed
Tordoff, M. G., Ulrich, P. M. & Sandler, F. (1990). Flavor preferences and fructose: Evidence that the liver detects the unconditioned stimulus for calorie-based learning. Appetite 14, 29–44.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Vanderweele, D. A., Deems, R. O. & Kanarek, R. B. (1990). Insulin modifies flavor aversions and preferences in real-feeding and sham-feeding rats. American Journal of Physiology 259, R823–R828.Google ScholarPubMed