Many cancer patients suffer taste aversions long after the nausea of their drug treatments has passed.These lasting taste aversions were acquired through

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Taste aversions are often acquired through classical conditioning, where a previously neutral stimulus (the taste of food) becomes associated with an unpleasant experience (nausea from cancer drugs). This leads to an aversion to that particular taste, which can persist long after the initial nausea has passed. Other forms of learning (such as operant, latent, and observational learning) are less likely to explain the acquisition of taste aversions in cancer patients.

Many Cancer Patients Suffer Taste Aversions Long After the Nausea