Play Deprivation without Social Isolation: Housing Controls

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 58-67

  Holloway, Kevin S ^a   Suter, Robert B ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Adolescent; Deprivation; Housing conditions; Play; Rats; Sex differences; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLAY; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEANING;

EID: 0346338085     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.10151     Document Type: Article

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