Early life environment modulates 'handedness' in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 1-7

  Tang, Akaysha C ^a,b,c   Verstynen, Timothy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Handedness; Handling; Laterization; Neonatal environment; Novelty; Paw reaching; Rats

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INFANCY; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD;

EID: 0037061533     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00330-8     Document Type: Article

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