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Strain differences in open field activity after learning in mice
Author(s) -
KVIST BÉATRICE
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1984.tb01029.x
Subject(s) - open field , psychology , avoidance learning , strain (injury) , locomotor activity , ambulatory , conditioning , developmental psychology , audiology , neuroscience , endocrinology , medicine , biology , statistics , psychiatry , mathematics
Male mice of albino and pigmented strains were tested on their open field activity after maze learning and passive avoidance conditioning. The results indicated that the albino strains Balb/c, NMRI, Swiss albino and hybrids of these, reacted with an open field activity increase after maze learning in contrast to the pigmented strains C3H/He, C57BL/6J and DBA/2N. Only Swiss albino displayed an increased ambulatory level after passive avoidance conditioning for the whole experimental time. It is suggested that an ambulatory increase after learning is related to fur color and not to the initial open field activity level, nor to the learning time or the learning capacity.