Negative information: Both presence and absence of spatial pattern elements guide rats' spatial choices

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 706-713

  DiGello, Elizabeth ^a   Brown, Michael F ^a   Affuso, John ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; RECALL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0038307180     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196325     Document Type: Article

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