The role of vision and proprioception in the aversion of rats to the open arms of an elevated plus-maze

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-26

  Martínez, Juan Carlos ^a   Cardenas, Fernando ^b   Lamprea, Marisol ^b   Morato, Silvio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aversion to open spaces; Elevated plus maze; Exploratory behavior; Proprioception; Rats; Vision

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEIGHT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; RAT; TIME; VISION;

EID: 0037206733     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(02)00102-X     Document Type: Article

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