How do rats cope with the two-way escape problem in a homogenous shuttle box?

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-157

  Savonenko, Alena V ^a,b   Brush, F Robert ^c   Zieliński, Kazimierz ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Conflict; Escape; Latency; Rat; Two way shuttle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONFLICT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032972499     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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