Cue and context conditioning of defensive behaviors to cat odor stimuli

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 7-8, 2001, Pages 587-595

  Blanchard, Robert J ^a,b   Yang, Mu ^a   Li, Chun I ^a   Gervacio, Alan ^b   Blanchard, D Caroline ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Aversive conditioning; Cat odor; Crouch; Defense; Defensive behavior; Freeze; Predator odor; Rat; Risk assessment; Sniff

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; HEAD MOVEMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SNIFFING;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CATS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; ODORS; POSTURE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RISK;

EID: 0035709355     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(01)00043-4     Document Type: Article

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