Rats learn to freeze to 22-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations through autoconditioning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 395-399

  Parsana, Ashwini J ^a   Moran, Elizabeth E ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoconditioning; Fear conditioning; Rat ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOCONDITIONING; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ULTRASONIC VOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84861716562     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.03.031     Document Type: Article

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