Animal Welfare Institute

Egeler, J. L. 2010. Operant training differences between male and female group-housed nonhuman primates. Tech Talk [The Newsletter for Laboratory Animal Science Technicians] 15 ...

Operant training of animals is a widely accepted practice to train or condition animals to cooperate with technical procedures or perform certain tasks in a laboratory setting. This type of training ...
Nature

Initial experience of heroin use under a two-chained operant schedule influences drug-seeking behavior after one month of abstinence

To evaluate the influence of an initial heroin experience under a modified two-chained training schedule on drug-seeking behavior after a long abstinence period. In the present study, we aimed to ...
Animal Welfare Institute

Martinez de Andino, E. V., McDonnell, S. M. 2017. Evaluation of operant learning in young foals using target training. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 193, 67-72.

The primary purpose of this study was to characterize operant learning performance of young foals. For each of 26 foals, aged 6–20 weeks, learning performance was quantitatively evaluated in a single ...
Nature

Long-Evans Rats Acquire Operant Self-Administration of 20% Ethanol Without Sucrose Fading

Adult, male, ethanol-naive, Long-Evans rats (Harlan, Indianapolis, IN), weighing 150–175 g on arrival (Harlan), were individually housed in ventilated Plexiglas cages (Thoren Caging Systems, Hazelton, ...