Voles scale locomotion to the size of the open-field by adjusting the distance between stops: A possible link to path integration

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-81

  Eilam, David ^a   Dank, Maya ^a   Maurer, Roland ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Exploration; Home base; Locomotion; Navigation; Orientation; Stopping behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037451842     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00322-4     Document Type: Article

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