Competition among spatial cues in a naturalistic food-carrying task

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-159

  Gibson, Brett M ^a   Shettleworth, Sara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0043237507     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03195977     Document Type: Article

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