Calibrating space: Exploration is important for allothetic and idiothetic navigation

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 659-667

  Whishaw, Ian Q ^a   Brooks, Brian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allothetic cues; Dead reckoning; Exploration; Idiothetic cues; Path integration; Space; Spatial mapping; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; INFRARED RADIATION; INTEGRATION; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RAT; SPACE;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHTING; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033371435     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1999)9:6<659::AID-HIPO7>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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