Conjugate limb coordination after experience with an interlimb yoke: Evidence for motor learning in the rat fetus

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 328-344

  Robinson, Scott R ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal movement; Interlimb coordination; Kinesthesia; Motor learning; Prenatal behavior; Rat fetus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETUS; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MODEL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROPRIOCEPTION; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FETAL MOVEMENT; FETUS; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 30544431550     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20103     Document Type: Article

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