The conditioned stimulus-unconditioned stimulus-feedback feeding sequence: reply to Ellins, von Kluge, and Cramer (1990).

ABSTRACT

Taste-potentiated noise aversions have been demonstrated in rats (Ellins, Cramer, & Whitmore, 1985; Ellins & von Kluge, 1987; Holder, Bermudez-Rattoni, & Garcia, 1988). However, these aversions are apparently less readily established than taste-potentiated odor aversions suggesting that all exteroceptive stimuli are not equally well potentiated by taste (Holder et al., 1988). Despite the claims of Ellins, von Kluge, and Cramer (1990), we replicated their findings and see no inconsistency between our findings and theirs. Both sets of results are explained by a common theory of conditioning (Garcia, 1989; Garcia & Holder, 1985).