Spatial configuration and list learning of proximally cued arms by rats in the enclosed four-arm radial maze

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-89

  Tremblay, Joseph ^a   Cohen, Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATION THEORY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PARALLEL MAP THEORY; RAT; ROTATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY CONSTRUCTION; ANIMAL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 22844437460     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196052     Document Type: Article

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