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Taste Aversion Learning

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Taste aversion learning is a conditioned avoidance of a food after a single pairing with illness, often hours later.

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One episode of food poisoning after a specific dish produces lasting aversion to that dish alone.

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Taste aversion breaks the usual rules on repetition and timing, which is why it reshaped conditioning theory.