Landmark geometry and identity controls spatial navigation in rats

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 312-323

  Greene, Correigh M ^a   Cook, Robert G ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; GEOMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RAT; RECALL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALIA; ARENA;

EID: 0030766280     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199089     Document Type: Article

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