The development of spatial capacity in piloting and dead reckoning by infant rats: Use of the huddle as a home base for spatial navigation

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 350-361

  Loewen, Irene ^a   Wallace, Douglas G ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Development of spatial navigation; Home base; Piloting; Spatial navigation development; Spatial navigation in rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAD RECKONING; HEATING; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PILOTING; POSTNATAL GROWTH; RAT; SKILL; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRAVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HEAT; LOCOMOTION; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 20144364752     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20063     Document Type: Article

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