Environmental enrichment increases responding to contextual cues but decreases overall conditioned fear in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-238

  Barbelivien, A ^a   Herbeaux, K ^a   Oberling, P ^a   Kelche, C ^a   Galani, R ^a   Majchrzak, M ^a,b  

^a Centre de Neurochimie   (France)

^b FRE 2855   (France)

Author keywords

Conditioned freezing; Context; Housing conditions; Tone CS

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROSHOCK; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 33645055086     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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