Use of salient and non-salient visuospatial cues by rats in the Morris Water Maze

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 794-799

  Young, Genevieve S ^a   Choleris, Elena ^a   Kirkland, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Morris water maze; Rats; Spatial learning; Visuospatial cues

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33645941223     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.01.022     Document Type: Article

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