A further investigation of the developmental emergence of fear- potentiated startle in rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 281-291

  Hunt, Pamela S ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

CS; Fear; Rats; Startle response; US

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEAR; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HEART RATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032916647     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199905)34:2<281::AID-DEV4>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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