Early auditory filial learning in degus (Octodon degus): Behavioral and autoradiographic studies

Brain Research

Volumn 743, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 162-170

  Poeggel, Gerd ^a   Braun, Katharina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 fluorodeoxyglucose; associative learning; brain development; conspecific vocalization; memory; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; LINEAR MODELS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); RODENTIA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0030474171     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01039-6     Document Type: Article

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