Odour conditioning of positive affective states: Rats can learn to associate an odour with being tickled

Most associative learning tests in rodents use negative stimuli, such as electric shocks. We investigated if young rats can learn to associate the presence of an odour with the experience of being tickled (i.e. using an experimenter’s hand to mimic rough-and-tumble play), shown to elicit 50 kHz ultr...

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Autores principales: Bombail, Vincent, Jerôme, Nathalie, Lam, Ho, Muszlak, Sacha, Meddle, Simone L., Lawrence, Alistair B., Nielsen, Birte L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6561538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31188832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212829

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6561538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31188832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212829

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