Extending the spontaneous preference test of recognition: Evidence of object-location and object-context recognition

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-200

  Dix, Sophie L ^a   Aggleton, John P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context; Rat; Recognition; Spatial recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; RATS; SMELL; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 0032964675     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00079-5     Document Type: Article

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