Systematic impacts of early-adolescent experiences on behavioral development: Insights from the “Human‐Rat Interaction Paradigm”

• Published in: Cognitive development Vol. 75; p. 101615
• Main Authors: Wu, Xiaorui, Yin, Bin, Yu, Delin, Li, Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.07.2025
• Subjects: Behavioral development; Early-adolescent experience; Holistic interactionism; Human-rat interaction paradigm; Probabilistic epigenesis; Holistic interactionism; Early-adolescent experience; Human-rat interaction paradigm; Behavioral development; Probabilistic epigenesis
• ISSN: 0885-2014
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101615

Utilizing human experimenters as surrogate caretakers and one-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats as child proxies, this study introduces the “Human-Rat Interaction Paradigm” (HRIP) to explore the systematic impact of early-adolescent experiences on behavioral development. Over a three-week intervent...