Ontogeny of place learning in children as measured in the radial arm maze, Morris search task, and open field task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1205-1228

  Overman, W H ^a   Pate, Bobbi Jean ^a   Moore, Kim ^a   Peuster, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; ONTOGENY; REWARD; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CUES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030447108     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.6.1205     Document Type: Article

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