Early maternal care predicts reliance on social learning about food in adult rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 168-175

  Lindeyer, Charlotte M ^a   Meaney, Michael J ^b   Reader, Simon M ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive programming hypothesis; Behavior; Development; Epigenetic transmission; Food preference; Maternal care; Oxytocin; Rat Rattus norvegicus; Social learning; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; LEARNING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872667259     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21009     Document Type: Article

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