Socially transmitted food preferences can be used to study long-term memory in rats

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 160-164

  Galef Jr , Bennett G ^a   Whiskin, Elaine E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; LONG TERM MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESEARCH; SOCIAL ASPECT; ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; EATING; IMITATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0041734911     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03195978     Document Type: Article

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