Complete maternal deprivation affects social, but not spatial, learning in adult rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 177-191

  Levy F ^a   Melo, A I ^b   Galef Jr , B G ^c   Madden, M ^d   Fleming, A S ^d  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial rearing; Maternal behavior; Maternal deprivation; Social learning; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL REARING; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RAT; REARING; RECOGNITION; SIBLING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL LEARNING; WEANING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PREGNANCY; RATS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141923795     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.10131     Document Type: Article

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