Are rats predisposed to learn 22 kHz calls as danger-predicting signals?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 69-75

  Endres, Thomas ^a   Widmann, Katrin ^a   Fendt, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alarm call; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SOUND INTENSITY; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 35449003600     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.07.012     Document Type: Article

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