Olfactory learning in the rat immediately after birth: Unique salience of first odors

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 488-504

  Miller, Stacie S ^a   Spear, Norman E ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early experience; Learning; Neonatal; Rodent; Smell olfaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMELL;

CITRUS LIMON; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 70349387687     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20388     Document Type: Article

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