The role of environmental familiarization in novel-object preference

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-29

  Besheer, Joyce ^a   Bevins, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Learning; Novelty; Object recognition; Rat; Spatial novelty

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034617136     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00090-5     Document Type: Article

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