Social Facial Touch in Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 900-910

  Wolfe, Jason ^a   Mende, Carolin ^a   Brecht, Michael ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggressive; Rat; Social; Vibrissae; Whisker

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; FEMALE; ILLUMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STEREOTYPY; TOUCH; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; FACE; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 83055179994     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026165     Document Type: Article

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