Behavioral strategy shifts with training: Rats on an elevated plus maze

Psychobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 480-485

  Tropp, Jennifer ^a   Markus, Etan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0033383594     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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