Figure 5.
Positive and negative learned salience of aversive objects. (A–C) Effects of air puff. (D–F) Effects of aversive taste. (G–I) Effects of timeout. Same format as in Figures 3A–C (n = 30 free viewing sessions in each sub-dimension). Reward-associated objects were included during learning and test (A,D,G) but are not shown in (B–C, E–F, H–I). (J) Choice of neutral objects against aversive objects, shown separately for three sub-dimensions (n = 12 choice sessions). (K) Rate of blinking when viewing an object during free viewing in the three sub-dimensions. Blinking increased only when gaze was directed to airpuff-associated objects. Otherwise, the rate remained low, even when airpuff-associated objects were present, but outside gaze. **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.