Effects of experience and context on 50-kHz vocalizations in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 93, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 766-776

  Wöhr, Markus ^a   Houx, Bart ^b   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^a   Spruijt, Berry ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activity; Anxiety; Communication; Emotion; Individuality; Motivation; Reward; Spectrographic analysis; Ultrasonic vocalization (USV)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND DETECTION; STUDENT T TEST; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 40749119226     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.11.031     Document Type: Article

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