Conditioned Taste Aversion: Memory of a Special Kind

ISBN-13: 9780198523475 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str.

Jan Bures; Takashi Yamamoto; Federico Bermudez-Rattoni

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Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is a powerful defense mechanism prote cting animals against repeated consumption of toxic food. CTA has a nu mber of unusual properties that challenge the basic tenets of traditio nal learning and memory theory. In the past decade several pivotal dis coveries have considerably advanced our understanding of the neural pr ocesses underlying CTA, and opened new possibilities for their analysi s at the molecular and cellular levels. This book, written by three of the world's leading researchers in the subject, provides a comprehens ive and up-to-date summary of research into the neuroanatomy, pharmaco logy, electrophysiology, and functional morphology of CTA. The first b ook of its kind, Conditioned Taste Aversion: Memory of a Special Kind will be important reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of neurobiology, neuroscience, psychology, behavior, and physi ology.