Brief Maternal Interaction Increases Number, Amplitude, and Bout Size of Isolation-Induced Ultrasonic Vocalizations in Infant Rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-102

  Myers, Michael M ^a   Ali, Nyron ^a   Weller, Aron ^b   Brunelli, Susan A ^a   Tu, Andrea Y ^a   Hofer, Myron A ^a   Shair, Harry N ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 1842582295     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.118.1.95     Document Type: Article

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