The RUB cage: Respiration-ultrasonic vocalizations-behavior acquisition setup for assessing emotional memory in rats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Hegoburu, Chloé ^a,b   Shionoya, Kiseko ^a,b   Garcia, Samuel ^a,b   Messaoudi, Belkacem ^a,b   Thévenet, Marc ^a,b   Mouly, Anne Marie ^a,b  

^a LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Emotion; Fear; Odor fear conditioning; Olfaction; Plethysmograph; Respiration; Stress; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREATHING; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL MEMORY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIDEORECORDING; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84855212042     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00025     Document Type: Article

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