The role of fear in one-trial passive avoidance learning in Japanese quail chicks genetically selected for long or short duration of the tonic immobility reaction

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 165-170

  Richard, S ^a   Davies, D C ^b   Faure, J M ^a  

^a STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avoidance learning; Birds; Coturnix; Fear; Genetic models; Limbic system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; QUAIL; TONIC IMMOBILITY;

EID: 0033968949     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00082-0     Document Type: Article

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