Active Avoidance Conditioning in Rats: Absence of Sex Difference and Estrous Effect
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le rats in reproductive and non-reproductive behaviors have been reported in several studies. This behavioral dimorphism has been registered in running wheel activity, reactivity to footshock, intracranial self stimulation (Diaz-Veliz et al., 1989), spatial learning (Warren et al., 1990), lever-pressing (Van Haaren et al., 1990) and classical conditioning (Wood and Shors 1998). However, other works have discarded the existence of behavioral dimorphism in some of these Psicothema, 1999. Vol. 11, no 3, pp. 655-661 ISSN 0214 9915 CODEN PSOTEG Copyright © 1998 Psicothema
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