Rats' novel object interaction as a measure of environmental familiarity

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-148

  Wilkinson, Jamie L ^a   Herrman, Laura ^a   Palmatier, Matthew I ^a   Bevins, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Context learning; Curiosity; Exploratory behavior; Habituation; Hippocampus; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645885897     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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