Olfactory aversive conditioning in the newborn (3-Hr-old) rat impairs later suckling for water and milk

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 277-283

  Nizhnikov, Michael E ^a   Petrov, Evgeniy S ^a   Spear, Norman E ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRUS LIMON;

WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; MALE; MILK; NEWBORN; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUCKING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; MILK; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMELL; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; WATER;

EID: 0036633188     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.28.3.277     Document Type: Article

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