The contribution of visual and inertial mechanisms to navigation in total darkness

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 324-334

  Save, Etienne ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DARKNESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030774611     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199090     Document Type: Article

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