Audible pain squeaks can mediate emotional contagion across pre-exposed rats with a potential effect of auto-conditioning
Abstract Footshock self-experience enhances rodents’ reactions to the distress of others. Here, we tested one potential mechanism supporting this phenomenon, namely that animals auto-condition to their own pain squeaks during shock pre-exposure. In Experiment 1, shock pre-exposure increased freezing...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-10-01
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| Series: | Communications Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05474-x |