| Abstract: | A conditioned flavor aversion (CFA) was used to measure thetaste characteristics of 0.005 and 0.025 M Na-saccharin in therat. At neither concentration did the rats show generalizationto NaCl, quinine HCl or SO4, sucrose octa-acetate or HCl, whereasgeneralization to sucrose was found at both concentrations.When the CFA was formed to 0.0001 M quinine HCl, no direct evidencewas found for generalization of the aversion to either saccharinconcentration. Thus at the two concentrations used Na-saccharinwould appear to be primarily sucrose-like in the rat taste systemwhen behavioral criteria are used. |
