Exploratory behavior as a function of environmental novelty and complexity in male and female rats

Psychological Reports

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 631-638

  Pisula, Wojciech ^a,c   Siegel, Jerome ^b  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

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EID: 29544434879     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.97.2.631-638     Document Type: Review

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