Assessing the interplay between fear and learning in mice exposed to a live rat in a spatial memory task (MWM)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 557-562

  Bonsignore, Luca T ^a   Chiarotti, Flavia ^a   Alleva, Enrico ^a   Cirulli, Francesca ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fear of predator; Memory; Mice; Morris Water Maze; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; FEAR; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; REACTION TIME; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 46549085256     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0143-6     Document Type: Article

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