Breeding for 50-kHz positive affective vocalization in rats

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-72

  Burgdorf, Jeffrey ^a   Panksepp, Jaak ^a,b   Brudzynski, Stefan M ^c   Kroes, Roger ^b   Moskal, Joseph R ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotion; Motivation; Rats; Reward; Selective breeding; Ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIOR; BREEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLAY; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SPECIES COMPARISON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TOUCH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 13644257689     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-004-0856-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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