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How food preferences are learned: laboratory animal models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Anthony Sclafani
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
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Abstract

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Type
Symposium on ‘Basic mechanisms of food preference and liking’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1995

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