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  • Conditioned Taste Aversion: Memory of a Special Kind

    Conditioned Taste Aversion by Bures, Jan; Bermudez-Rattoni, F.; Yamamoto, T.;

    Memory of a Special Kind

    Series: Oxford Psychology Series; 31;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 28 May 1998

    • ISBN 9780198523475
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages192 pages
    • Size 242x160x15 mm
    • Weight 429 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations line figures
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    Short description:

    Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is a robust defence device protecting animals against repeated consumption of toxic food. It has a number of unusual properties contrasting sharply with the basic assumptions of traditional learning theories, which has brought it increasingly to the attention of neurobiologists interested in neural plasticity. This book, written by world experts in the subject, reviews the current state of research into CTA. The first book of its kind to provide an up-to-date summary of research into the neuroanatomy, pharmacology, electrophysiology, and functional morphology of CTA, it will be welcomed by all researchers and graduate students in the field.

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    Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is a robust defence device protecting animals against repeated consumption of toxic food. It is characterised by the ability of many animals to learn to avoid certain substances by their sight, smell, or taste after experiencing an unpleasant or harmful reaction to them. CTA is encountered at all levels of evolution, with similar forms of food aversion learning found in vertebrate and invertebrate species whose ancestral lines diverged more than 500 million years ago. CTA has a number of unusual properties contrasting sharply with the basic assumptions of traditional learning theories, which has brought it increasingly to the attention of neurobiologists interested in neural plasticity. In CTA, the usual time parameters between stimulus and aversion are relaxed considerably, frequently with delays of hours rather than seconds. Moreover, the critical stage of CTA acquisition may proceed under deep anaesthesia incompatible with other forms of learning. In the past decade several pivotal discoveries have considerably avanced our understanding of the neural processes underlying CTA, and opened new possibilities for their analysis at the molecular and cellular levels. This book, written by three of the world's leading researchers in the subject, comprehensively reviews the current state of research into conditioned taste aversion. The first book of its kind to provide an up-to-date summary of research into the neuroanatomy, pharmacology, electrophysiology, and functional morphology of CTA, it will be welcomed by all researchers and graduate students in the field.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Ethology, physiological psychology, and neurobiology of CTA
    The CTA paradigm: Terminology, methods, and conventions
    Neuroanatomy of CTA: Lesions studies
    Functional ablation studies of CTA
    Pharmacology of CTA
    Electrophysiology of CTA
    Funtional morphology of CTA
    Transplantation studies
    Paradoxes, projections, and perspectives of CTA research
    References
    Index

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