Impact of proportion on configural perception of odor mixtures in a newborn mammal

International audience; Configural perception of odor mixtures appears functional early in life. Recent results underline that after the learning of a binary mixture. (AB) that blends in humans, newborn rabbits respond both to the mixture and to its components. However, after the learning of. a single component they do not generalize to the mixture. This suggests that they perceive more in the mixture than the odor of each. constituent (Coureaud et al., Physiol. Behav. 2008). Here, we pursued the assessment of their configural perception of AB, with the. aim to determine whether specific component proportions of A and B elicit the perceptual emergence of an additional odor in AB. Starting. …