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Locomotor activity of socially isolated male rats was found to be positively related to cage size, thereby suggesting that contradictory findings in previous studies comparing isolated with grouped animals may in part have been due to variations in isolates’ cage sizes.
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This study was supported by University of Canterbury Research Grant C71/52 to R. N. Hughes.
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Syme, L.A., Hughes, R.N. Social isolation in young rats: Effects of cage size on open-field behavior. Psychon Sci 29, 25–26 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336555
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