Experience modulates vicarious freezing in rats: A model for empathy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Atsak, Piray ^a   Orre, Marie ^a,b   Bakker, Petra ^a   Cerliani, Leonardo ^a,b   Roozendaal, Benno ^a   Gazzola, Valeria ^a,b   Moita, Marta ^c   Keysers, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; IMMOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; FEAR; FREEZING; HUMAN; LONG EVANS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMPATHY; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 79960251887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021855     Document Type: Article

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