Open field behavior
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Related Terms
behavior test, ethology, exploratory behavior
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Scope Note
behavior manifested and/or studied in a standardized environmental arrangement in order to study its approach-avoidance responses or signs of emotionality and locomotor activity.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- Open-field behavior is not related to treadmill performance in exercising rats.
- Open-field behavior is not related to tread- mill performance in exercising rats.
- Lipp2 1IBCM, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 2Anatomy, University of Zrich, Zrich, Switzerland Analysis of open-field behavior is widely used to assess spontaneous activity and emotionality in rats and mice.
- These measures are all cumulative and general, reflecting the common view that open-field behavior is largely stochastic in nature.
- The identification of the Pavlovian conditioning of the behavioral effects of cocaine using open-field behavior is often confounded by the concurrent occurrence of behavioral habituation in control animals.
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