Discrimination by Rats of Conspecific Odors of Reward and Nonreward
- 6 February 1970
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 167 (3919), 904-905
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.167.3919.904
Abstract
The hypothesis that, after receiving reward and nonreward, rats excrete differential odors perceptible to other rats was tested by making the correct turn in a T-maze contingent on discrimination of any such odors. Clear evidence for an "odor of nonreward or frustration" was obtained, and there was the suggestion of a transistory odor after early reward trials.Keywords
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