Environmental enrichment decreases responding for visual novelty

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 360-366

  Cain, Mary E ^a   Green, Thomas A ^b   Bardo, Michael T ^c  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enrichment; Impoverished; Light; Novelty; Operant

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RESEARCH WORK; RODENT; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RAT; REWARD; SOCIAL STATUS; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33750223108     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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