Social Interaction and Conditional self-discrimination under a Paradigm of Avoidance and Positive Reinforcement in Wistar rats

The experiment reported here uses a conditional self-discrimination task to examine the influence of social interaction on the facilitation of selfdiscrimination in rats. The study is based on a previous report (PenagosCorzo et al., 2011) showing positive evidence of such facilitation, but extending the exposition to social interaction conditions prior to training. Specifically, rats were assigned to three conditions with different levels of social interaction and exposed to two conditional [...]

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