0000000001212499
AUTHOR
Sébastien Romagny
Does the learning of elements prevent configural odor mixture perception in the newborn rabbit?
Does the learning of elements prevent configural odor mixture perception in the newborn rabbit?. 36. annual meeting - association for chemoreception sciences (Achems)
Response to all after conditioning to parts of the whole: a case of configural perception in the newborn rabbit
Coming from flowers, foods or conspecifics, odours are ubiquitous in our environment. Most of the time, perceived odours are the result of complex relationships between tens or more of odorants with our olfactory system. Two perceptual strategies are potentially engaged to perceive such chemically complex mixtures. The elemental mode allows the perception of each component's quality. Conversely, the configural mode supports the perception of a new odour in addition to, or in place of, the odours of the components (blending effect). In humans, it is usually considered that the prevalence of one mode on the other is due, in part, to mixture complexity. In the rabbit, previous results have sho…