Evidence for the flexible use of spatial knowledge in the rat

Psychobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 294-302

  Matthews, Douglas B ^a,b   Best, Phillip J ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; SWIMMING;

EID: 0031407729     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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