Further evidence that rats use ordinal timing in a daily time-place learning task

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 35-48

  Carr, Jason A R ^a   Tan, Adrienne O ^a   Wilkie, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Foraging behaviour; Rats; Species difference; Time place behaviour; Timing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAINING;

EID: 0032721484     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00074-1     Document Type: Article

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