Spatial learning by rats across visually disconnected environments

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-27

  Rossier, Jérôme ^a   Grobéty, Marie Claude ^a   Schenk, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; RAT;

ANIMALIA; ARENA;

EID: 0342445425     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199769     Document Type: Article

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