Distress vocalizations in infant rats: What's all the fuss about?

Psychological Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 78-81

  Blumberg, Mark S ^a   Sokoloff, Greta ^b   Kirby, Robert F ^b   Kent, Kristen J ^b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033760894     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00219     Document Type: Article

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