Homing with locale, taxon, and dead reckoning strategies by foraging rats: Sensory hierarchy in spatial navigation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-152

  Maaswinkel, Hans ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allothetic cues; Dead reckoning; Distal cues; Foraging; Homing; Idiothetic cues; Local cues; Path integration; Spatial learning; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; HEARING; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SMELL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION;

EID: 0032956914     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00100-4     Document Type: Article

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