Warmth from skin-to-skin contact with mother is essential for the acquisition of filial huddling preference in preweanling rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 813-827

  Kojima, Sayuri ^a   Alberts, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliative behavior; Associative learning; Attachment; Early experience; Huddling; Mother infant relations; Odor preference; Rat pup; Skin to skin contact; Touch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; ODORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SMELL;

RATTUS;

EID: 80255137536     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20565     Document Type: Article

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