The influence of early auditory experience on later auditory and tactual variation seeking in the rat
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Psychobiology
- Vol. 9 (3) , 255-260
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.420090309
Abstract
Albino rats were raised under 1 of 4 conditions of auditory stimulation from 22‐‐35 days of age. At 40 days, preferences for auditory and tactual variation were assessed in separate runway tests. Results were analyzed in a split‐plot design for each of 2 measures of variation seeking. Subjects experiencing more‐variable early stimulation scored higher than subjects receiving lessvariable stimulation on 1 measure of variation‐seeking and lower on the 2nd measure. The effect was intermodal since these results were obtained for tactual as well as auditory variation seeking.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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