Early experience and domestication affect auditory discrimination learning, open field behaviour and brain size in wild Mongolian gerbils and domesticated Laboratory gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus forma domestica)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-21

  Stuermer, Ingo W ^a   Wetzel, Wolfram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain size; Domestication; Early development; Enriched environment; Open field behaviour; Shuttle box learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GERBIL; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; RECALL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, WILD; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GERBILLINAE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORGAN SIZE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749991299     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.05.025     Document Type: Article

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