Brief exposure to the biological mother "potentiates" the isolation behavior of precocial guinea pig pups

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 653-659

  Hennessy, Michael B ^a   Miller, Emily E ^a   Shair, Harry N ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Guinea pig; Infant vocalizations; Potentiation; Separation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; LACTATION; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GUINEA PIGS; MOTHERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 33845566481     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20180     Document Type: Article

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