Environmental enrichment promotes neural plasticity and cognitive ability in fish

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1767, 2013, Pages

  Salvanes, Anne Gro Vea ^a   Moberg, Olav ^a   Ebbesson, Lars O E ^b   Nilsen, Tom Ole ^a,b   Jensen, Knut Helge ^a   Braithwaite, Victoria A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Uni Research   (Norway)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Captive rearing; Cognition; Enrichment; Neural plasticity; Salmo salar; Spatial cognitive ability

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COGNITION; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REARING; SALMONID; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; SALMO SALAR;

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; AQUACULTURE; ATLANTIC SALMON; COGNITION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEARNING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; COGNITION; LEARNING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SALMO SALAR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84896059090     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1331     Document Type: Article

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