Playback of Alarm and Appetitive Calls Differentially Impacts Vocal, Heart-Rate, and Motor Response in Rats

Summary: Our rudimentary knowledge about rat intraspecific vocal system of information exchange is limited by experimental models of communication. Rats emit 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in appetitive states and 22-kHz ones in aversive states. Both affective states influence heart rate. We propos...

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Main Authors: Krzysztof H. Olszyński, Rafał Polowy, Monika Małż, Paweł M. Boguszewski, Robert K. Filipkowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220307690