Sonographic structure of isolation-induced ultrasonic calls of rat pups

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 195-204

  Brudzynski, Stefan M ^a   Kehoe, Priscilla ^b   Callahan, Megan ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distress calls; Isolation calls; Rat pups; Sonographic analysis; Ultrasonic vocalization; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032892152     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199904)34:3<195::AID-DEV4>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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