Odor-Aversion Learning in Neonatal Rats
- 25 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 198 (4319), 845-846
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.918668
Abstract
Two-day-old rats were exposed to a novel odor and injected with an illness-inducing drug, lithium chloride. When tested at 8 days of age, these pups avoided pine shavings scented with the odor, whereas control pups did not. These results imply that rat pups are capable of associative learning at a much earlier age than was thought possible.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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