Performance of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice under an incremental repeated acquisition of behavioral chains procedure

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 705-714

  Johnson, Jennifer M ^a   Bailey, Jordan M ^a   Johnson, Joshua E ^a   Newland, M Christopher ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward chaining; BALB c; C57BL 6; Forward chaining; Incremental repeated acquisition; Learning

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

LEARNING; MALE BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RODENT; TRAINING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; SATIETY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SERIAL LEARNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MUS;

EID: 77953914686     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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