Genetically-based behavioral traits influence the effects of Shuttle Box avoidance overtraining and extinction upon intertrial responding: A study with the Roman rat strains

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-72

  Aguilar, Raúl ^a   Gil, Luis ^a   Fernández Teruel, Alberto ^a   Tobeña, Adolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

2 way Shuttle Box; Contextual extinction; Fearlessness; Impulsiveness; Intertrial responding; Psychogenetics

Indexed keywords

RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEAR; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STEREOTYPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1942452715     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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