The Roman high- and low-avoidance rats respond differently to novelty in a familiarized environment

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 63-72

  Pisula, Wojciech ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Exploratory behavior; Investigatory responses; Novelty; Response to novelty; Roman high avoidance rats; Roman low avoidance rats

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATION; RODENT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; WALKING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038578298     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00032-9     Document Type: Article

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