Breakfast in the nook and dinner in the dining room: Time-of-day discrimination in rats

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-33

  Means, Larry W ^a   Ginn, Sheryl R ^b   Arolfo, Maria Pia ^c   Pence, John D ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WINGATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maze discrimination; Rat; Response learning; Spatial discrimination; Time of day discrimination; Time place learning; Visual tactile discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEAL; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RAT; STIMULUS; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAINING;

EID: 0034737525     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00068-1     Document Type: Article

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