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Bethany C Reeb-Sutherland1, Akaysha C Tang

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States.

Behavioural Brain Research
|September 14, 2011
PubMed

Using the within-litter neonatal novelty exposure procedure, we manipulated newborn pups' environmental novelty independently from natural variations in maternal care. To better translate animal models to human development studies, we introduce a measure for maternal care reliability. We examined how this reliability modulates novelty-exposure-induced effects on offspring cognitive, social, and emotional development and show that maternal care reliability acts in a function-specific manner. We discuss our results within the framework of a maternal reliability-based modulation model.

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