A cautionary note regarding drug and brain lesion studies that use swimming pool tasks: Partial reinforcement impairs acquisition of place learning in a swimming pool but not on dry land

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 43-52

  Gonzalez, Claudia L R ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Learning and memory; Partial reinforcement; Spatial learning; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SWIMMING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SWIMMING;

EID: 0034220763     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00162-5     Document Type: Article

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