Observational Fear Learning in Rats: Role of Trait Anxiety and Ultrasonic Vocalization

Observational Fear Learning in Rats: Role of Trait Anxiety and Ultrasonic Vocalization

Rats can acquire fear by observing conspecifics that express fear in the presence of conditioned fear stimuli. This process is called observational fear learning and is based on the social transmission of the demonstrator rat’s emotion and the induction of an empathy-like or anxiety state in the obs...

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Main Authors: Markus Fendt, Claudia Paulina Gonzalez-Guerrero, Evelyn Kahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Brain Sciences
Subjects:
anxiety
observational fear learning
rat
ultrasonic vocalization
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/4/423

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