Short exposures to enriched environments can increase genetic variability of behavior in mice
- 1 November 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Psychobiology
- Vol. 9 (6) , 549-553
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.420090608
Abstract
Previous work indicates that mice of different genotypes reared in enriched environments show differential increases in performance on a food‐seeking task. In this study 2 experiments examined the effects in selected mice strains of short exposures to such enrichment. Experiment 1 indicated that 48 hr of exposure to enriched cages was sufficient to produce results found previously when subjects were reared from birth in enriched cages. Experiment 2 indicated that as little as 6 hr of exposure to an enriched cage was sufficient to produce almost maximal enrichment effects in C57BL/10J mice.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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