Pro-social ultrasonic communication in rats: Insights from playback studies

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 234, Issue , 2014, Pages 73-81

  Seffer, Dominik ^a   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^a   Wöhr, Markus ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Autism; Schizophrenia; Social behavior; Ultrasonic communication; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

OPIATE RECEPTOR;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COOPERATION; FACE VALIDITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; ULTRASONIC VOCALIZATION; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION; WHITE NOISE; ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DEVICES; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RATS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84905409314     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.01.023     Document Type: Article

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