Re-examining the ontogeny of the context preexposure facilitation effect in the rat through multiple dependent variables

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 176-190

  Pisano, M V ^a   Ferreras, S ^a   Krapacher, F A ^a   Paglini, G ^a,b   Arias, C ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN MÉDICA MERCEDES Y MARTÍN FERREYRA   (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Context; Fear memory; Hippocampus; Ontogeny; Preexposure; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTEXT PREEXPOSURE FACILITATION EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACILITATION; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FECES; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GROOMING; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; ODORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861535944     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.04.030     Document Type: Article

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