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...
Main Authors: | Vincent Bombail, Nathalie Jerôme, Ho Lam, Sacha Muszlak, Simone L Meddle, Alistair B Lawrence, Birte L Nielsen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212829 |
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