Navigation in the water maze: The role of proximal and distal visual cues, path integration, and magnetic field information

Psychobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 286-293

  Cain, Donald P ^a   Beiko, Jason ^a   Boon, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0031406710     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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