Olfactory traces and spatial learning in rats

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1129-1136

  Lavenex, P ^a   Schenk, F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; OLFACTORY CUE; RODENT; SPATIAL COGNITION;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0032211711     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0873     Document Type: Article

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