Rats are reluctant to use circadian timing in a daily time-place task

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 287-299

  Carr, Jason A R ^a   Wilkie, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Foraging behaviour; Rats; Species difference; Time place behaviour; Timing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FOOD AVAILABILITY; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAINING;

EID: 0033012605     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00036-9     Document Type: Article

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