Comparison of male and female rats in avoidance of a moving object: more thigmotaxis, hypolocomotion and fear-like reactions in females
2012
Abstrakt
The paper shows effect of sex in the newly-designed. Enemy avoidance task, in which rats avoid a slowly moving programmable robot.
Female rats showed more anxiety-related measures in the habituation. Actual avoidance of a robot, which was reinforced by mild footshocks, was, however, similar in both sexes.