A comparative approach to the behavior called 'learned helplessness'

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-160

  Eisenstein, E M ^a   Carlson, A D ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cockroach; Evolution; Insect; Invertebrate; Learned helplessness; Learning; Memory; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; COCKROACHES; EVOLUTION; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031003140     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)02260-7     Document Type: Article

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