Behavioral expression of learned fear in rats is appropriate to their age at training, not their age at testing

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 394-404

  Richardson, Rick ^a   Fan, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036868286     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195964     Document Type: Article

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