Hand-preference training in the mouse reveals key elements of its learning and memory process and resolves the phenotypic complexity in the behaviour.

Abstract excerpt

Handedness in the mouse comprises 2 different behaviours. Some strains have a conditional behaviour, in that the mice learn a direction of hand preference in response to reaching for food, whereas other strains have an innate or constitutive behaviour, and prior experience has no measurable effect on their hand preference. However, hybrids from different strains have revealed both recessive and dominant forms of...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Behavior, Animal
• Share to Conditioning, Psychological