A biorobotic investigation of Norway rat pups (Rattus norvegicus) in an Arena

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 161-173

  Schank, Jeffrey C ^a,c,d   May, Christopher J ^a,b,e   Tran, Jonathan T ^a,b   Joshi, Sanjay S ^b,f,g,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UC Davis ^*  (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Autonomous robotics; Biorobotics; Control architecture; Modeling; Norway rat; Rattus norvegicus; Sensorimotor development

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 12344292847     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971230401200303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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