In the dark: Spatial choice when access to spatial cues is restricted

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-30

  Brown, Michael F ^a   Bing, Mark N ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA; ARENA;

EID: 0031047260     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199021     Document Type: Article

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