Brain Weight Increases Resulting from Environmental Enrichment: A Directional Dominance in Mice

21 August 1970

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Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 169 (3947) , 776-778
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.169.3947.776

Abstract

A genetic analysis of brain weights of 544 mice reared in either enriched or standard laboratory environments indicated significant directional dominance in the percentage of increase in brain weight as a result of enrichment.

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