Year: 2012
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The performance of social play behavior is studied in dyadic encounters. Rats (25-40 days old), that are matched for sex (we usually use males) and weight are used. To preclude the influence of existing dominance hierarchies on social play, cage mates are never tested against each other. To enhance the motivation for social behavior, rats are briefly socially isolated before the experiment. Isolation for up to 24 hr causes an orderly increase in social play behavior during the test (4,18,20). To enable the ready detection of both increases and decreases in social play behavior, an isolation time is used that evokes a half-maximal increase in social play behavior, i.e. 3.5 hr (4).
Institution: Utrecht University
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Science Foundation, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, European Commission, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Weizmann Institute of Science, Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Università degli Studi di Padova, Israel Science Foundation, Council for Higher Education, Universität Zürich, National Institutes of Health, Qatar National Research Fund, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Stichting voor de Technische Wetenschappen, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Award: G8566036593
OpenAlex ID: W2183289017