The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Play Fighting of Rats.

Although decorticated rats are able to engage in play, their play is abnormal in three ways. First, decorticates do not display the normal, age-related shifts in defensive strategies during development. Second, decorticates do not modify their defensive tactics in response to the social identity of...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 123; no. 6; pp. 1158 - 1169
Main Authors:	Bell, Heather C., McCaffrey, David R., Forgie, Margaret L.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association December 2009
Subjects:	Play behavior in animals Animal aggression Brain function localization Motor cortex
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost