Mouse paw preference: Effects of variations in testing protocol

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-87

  Bulman Fleming, M Barbara ^a   Bryden, M Philip ^a   Rogers, Timothy T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inbred strains; Independent reaches; Lateralization; Mouse paw preference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HANDEDNESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0030934313     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)02249-8     Document Type: Article

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