One of the results from the Garcia and Koelling study (1966) was the finding that stimuli that arise internally (such as detecting a stimulus's flavour) are more readily associated with an internal event (such as illness) than with an external event (such as electric shock applied to the skin).

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The Garcia and Koelling study on taste aversion learning demonstrated that rats more easily associated a particular taste (an internal stimulus) with sickness (an internal event) than with an external event like a shock, highlighting how certain types of stimuli are more readily associated with specific outcomes based on the nature of the stimulus and the event.

One of the Results from the Garcia and Koelling Study