Auditory discrimination reversal learning and assessment of behavioral teratogenesis in rats

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 197-207

  Dube, William V ^a   Callahan, Thomas D ^a   McIlvane, William J ^a   Deutsch, Curtis K ^a   Ullman, M David ^a   Koul, Omanand ^a   McCluer, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory discrimination; Discrimination reversal; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Prenatal ethanol; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR TERATOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STIMULUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030248989     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(96)00003-4     Document Type: Article

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