A sensory-enhanced context facilitates learning and multiple measures of unconditioned stimulus processing in the preweanling Rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 126-140

  Brasser, Susan M ^b   Spear, Norman E ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; STARTLE REFLEX; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STARTLE REACTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031906277     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.1.126     Document Type: Article

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