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ANIMALS will drink more of a saccharin solution than water, and will run a maze or bar-press for a saccharin reward. It has been suggested that since saccharin is non-nutritive, such behaviour may be hedonic rather than drive reducing1. Sheffield and Roby, and Carper and Polliard maintain that the taste of saccharin is a primary re-inforcer, because hungry animals do not extinguish their response to it as would be expected for an acquired reward related to drive or need reduction2–4.
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WARREN, R., WARREN, R. Soluble Saccharin Preference: a Nutritive Basis for Persistence. Nature 210, 310–311 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210310a0
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