Problems of conditioning Xenopus laevis tadpoles with standard avoidance-response learning paradigms

Psychological Reports

Volumn 79, Issue 3 PART 1, 1996, Pages 763-773

  Uretsky, Michael E ^a   Rahwan, Ralf G ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030330942     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.79.3.763     Document Type: Article

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