Social transmission of Pavlovian fear: Fear-conditioning by-proxy in related female rats

Animal Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 827-834

  Jones, Carolyn E ^a   Riha, Penny D ^a   Gore, Andrea C ^a   Monfils, Marie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Indirect conditioning; Observational learning; Social transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; LONG TERM MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGY; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84938523119     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-013-0711-2     Document Type: Article

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