Differences between appetitive and aversive reinforcement on reorientation in a spatial working memory task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 309-316

  Golob, Edward J ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed matching to sample; Disorientation; Geometric module; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISORIENTATION; ERROR; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMIDITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037126161     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00184-5     Document Type: Article

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