Long-term retention and overshadowing of proximal and distal cues following habituation in an object exploration task

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-128

  Craig, Sarah ^a   Cunningham, Lorretto ^a   Kelly, Lynda ^a   Commins, Sean ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Distal visual cues; Object displacement; Overshadowing; Proximal visual cues; Retention; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 15744394870     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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