Multiple systems for spatial learning: Dead reckoning and beacon homing in rats

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-141

  Shettleworth, Sara J ^a   Sutton, Jennifer E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; ARENA;

EID: 17444373388     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.31.2.125     Document Type: Article

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