Enrichment to odors improves olfactory discrimination in adult rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 173-179

  Mandairon, Nathalie ^a   Stack, Conor ^a   Kiselycznyk, Carly ^a   Linster, Christiane ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Olfaction; Olfactory enrichment; Spontaneous discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; RAT; SMELLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; ODORS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMELL;

EID: 33644756916     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.1.173     Document Type: Article

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