Conditioned Taste Aversion: Memory of a Special Kind

by Federico Bermudez-Rattoni, Takashi Yamamoto, Jan Bureš

Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is a powerful defense mechanism protecting animals against repeated consumption of toxic food. CTA has a number of unusual properties that challenge the basic tenets of traditional learning and memory theory. In the past decade several pivotal discoveries have considerably advanced our understanding of the neural processes underlying CTA, and opened new possibilities for their analysis at the molecular and cellular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198523475
• ISBN13: 9780198523475
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"