Laughing Rats Are Optimistic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Rygula, Rafal ^a   Pluta, Helena ^a   Popik, Piotr ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIMISM; PUNISHMENT; RAT; REWARD; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOUCH; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84871564202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051959     Document Type: Article

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