Time-of-day influence on exploratory behaviour of rats exposed to an unfamiliar environment

Behaviour

Volumn 151, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1943-1966

  De Oliveira, Diogo L ^a   Loss, Cássio M ^a   Córdova, Sandro D ^a   Callegari Jacques, Sidia Maria ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

circadian rhythm; exploration; home base; locomotion; open field; principal component analysis; spatio temporal organization

Indexed keywords

RATTUS;

EID: 84908584216     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003224     Document Type: Article

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