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Pairing a taste with recovery from thiamine deficiency produced a preference for that flavor over tastes associated with deficiency and novel tastes in thiamine-deficient rats. The preference persisted after recovery from deficiency.
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Zahorik, D.M., Maier, S.F. Appetitive conditioning with recovery from thiamine deficiency as the unconditioned stimulus. Psychon. Sci. 17, 309–310 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336546
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