In adult animals, the consequences of stress are often severe and long lasting. Repeated subjugation in adult male golden hamsters inhibits aggression and increases submissive and avoidant behaviours. By contrast, subjugation during puberty enhances offensive aggression. The goals of this study were to ...
arms are named A, B and C, in the sequence B–A–C–A–B there would be two alternations. The continuous alternation task has the advantage of avoiding possible stress deriving from handling between test trials. But one great limit of the continuous version is that it may not be able ...