Contribution of egocentric spatial memory to place navigation of rats in the Morris water maze

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-129

  Moghaddam, Mojdeh ^a   Bures, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allocentric map; Egocentric map; Orientation in darkness; Path integration; Place navigation; Rat; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 0030222052     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00240-5     Document Type: Article

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