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Research ArticleOpinion, Cognition and Behavior

How to Control Behavioral Studies for Rodents—Don’t Project Human Thoughts onto Them

Lisa Genzel
eNeuro 19 January 2021, 8 (1) ENEURO.0456-20.2021; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0456-20.2021
Lisa Genzel
Donders Centre for Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0456-20.2021
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33468539
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  • Received October 23, 2020
  • Revision received December 28, 2020
  • Accepted January 8, 2021
  • Published online January 19, 2021.
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Copyright © 2021 Genzel This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Lisa Genzel
  1. Donders Centre for Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Lisa Genzel at l.genzel{at}donders.ru.nl.
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