Repeated maternal separation of preweanling rats attenuates behavioral responses to primary and conditioned incentives in adulthood

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 99-107

  Matthews, Keith ^a   Wilkinson, Lawrence S ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditioned incentives; Conditioned locomotor activity; Development; Maternal separation; Novelty; Reward; Successive negative contrast; Successive positive contrast

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030053268     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02069-1     Document Type: Article

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