Passive avoidance learning in the young rat
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Psychobiology
- Vol. 13 (5), 513-518
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.420130510
Abstract
A step-through locomotor passive avoidance task is described requiring the suppression of a spontaneous escape reaction from a cool toward a warm compartment in order to avoid an electric shock delivered in the warm side. We observed no learning of this task at 9 days of age, a very low but significant level of acquisition at 11 days, a slow but progressive improvement of avoidance from the 13th until the 17th day when the adult capacity was achieved, and a marked increase in the rate between 17–20 days.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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