title: Effect of early sensory experience on the exploratory activity in adult animals.
abstract: It was previously found that the exploratory activity of adult Wistar rats with their vibrissae cut in the period from 9 to 20 postnatal days was characterized by lower intragroup variability in comparison with control rats [3]. The present study has shown that the earlier limitation of species-specific afferentation (whisker trimming on postnatal days 2-9) does not induce such changes. We conclude that high plasticity of the brain during the early postnatal period provides better adaptation to the deficit of sensory information.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. ihna_ann@mail.ru.|Pirogov Russian National Research University, Moscow, Russia. ihna_ann@mail.ru.|Moscow Physical Technical Institute (State University), Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, Russia. ihna_ann@mail.ru.
authors.forename: A Yu
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Shishelova
authors.affiliation: Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.|Moscow Physical Technical Institute (State University), Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, Russia.|Federal Research Clinical Center of Specialized Medical Aid and Medical Technologies, Russian Federal Biomedical Agency, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Aliev
authors.affiliation: Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Raevskii
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar