Development and application of a new method to investigate cognition in newborn guppies

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 443-449

  Miletto Petrazzini, Maria Elena ^a   Agrillo, Christian ^a   Piffer, Laura ^a   Dadda, Marco ^a   Bisazza, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ontogeny; Operant conditioning; Poecilia reticulata; Shoal choice

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GUPPY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POECILIA; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862661861     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.05.044     Document Type: Article

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