A genetic and molecular study of learning processes in rats.

doi:10.1007/BF01067983

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A genetic and molecular study of learning processes in rats.

Behavior genetics - 1 Sept 1993

Korochkin L, Shumskaya I, Marchenko N, Tomsons V, Parvez H, Salganik R

Abstract excerpt

Using the conditioned feeding reflex model, a polymorphism for the rate of formation of this response was identified in a population of laboratory animals. Selection for high and low rate of the formation of this reflex resulted in significant differences in this character between two strains by...

Topics

Animals
Arousal
Conditioning, Classical
DNA
Female
Hippocampus
Male
Phenotype
RNA
Rats
Reaction Time
Species Specificity

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