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Traveling Companions Add Complexity and Hinder Performance in the Spatial Behavior of Rats

We sought to uncover the impact of the social environment on the spatial behavior of rats. Food-deprived rats were trained in a spatial task of collecting food items from 16 equispaced objects. Following training, they were tested, first alone and then with a similarly-trained cage-mate. It was foun...

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Autores principales: Dorfman, Alex, Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard, Eilam, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26727216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146137