A comparison of wild-caught wood mice and bank voles in the Intellicage: Assessing exploration, daily activity patterns and place learning paradigms

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 211-217

  Galsworthy, Michael J ^a   Amrein, Irmgard ^a   Kuptsov, Pavel A ^b   Poletaeva, Inga I ^b   Zinn, Pascal ^a   Rau, Anton ^a   Vyssotski, Alexei ^a   Lipp, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Activity; Comparative; Exploration; Intellicage; Learning; Voles; Wood mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAGE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RODENT; SPECIES; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VOLE; WOOD;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MURIDAE; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY;

EID: 10944241136     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.06.021     Document Type: Article

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