Maternal care can rapidly induce an odor-guided huddling preference in rat pups

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-105

  Kojima, Sayuri ^a   Alberts, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Early experience; Huddling; Maternal odor; Mother infant relations; Odor preference; Olfactory learning; Rat pup

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; GROOMING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT; ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; ODORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMELL;

EID: 65849445587     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20349     Document Type: Article

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