Suckling as Incentive to Instrumental Learning in Preweanling Rats
- 20 May 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 196 (4292), 898-899
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.860121
Abstract
Neonatal rats as young as 7 days of age learned, reversed, and retained a left-right discrimination with a nonlactating nipple as the incentive. These results have implications for the ontogeny of associative processes and for their neurological and neurochemical mediators.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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