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We investigated sources of interference with taste-mediated environmental potentiation in Holtzman rats. Confinement in a novel environmental context for 15 min prior to saccharin ingestion prevented the development of enhanced lithium chloride-reinforced aversions to the environment. These results implicate the contribution of stimulus delay in the disruption of potentiation. They are discussed in terms of both special- and general-process conceptions of conditioning.
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This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS8809508 to Michael R. Best and National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH40976 to John D. Batson. We thank Neil Fulbright, Hemlata Patel, and Travis White for their technical assistance in conducting this experiment. Some of the data from this experiment were presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
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Best, M.R., Batson, J.D. & Bowman, M.T. The role of ingestional delay in taste-mediated environmental potentiation. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 28, 215–218 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334007
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