Chunking versus foraging search patterns by rats in the hierarchically baited radial maze

Animal Cognition

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-104

  Cohen, Jerome ^a   Pardy, Sandra ^a   Solway, Heidi ^a   Graham, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chunking; Foraging; Rats; Search strategy

Indexed keywords

HELIANTHUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; RAT;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 0042352151     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-003-0168-9     Document Type: Article

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