Exploration in a dark open field: A shift from directional to positional progression and a proposed model of acquiring spatial information

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 313-323

  Avni, Reut ^a   Zadicario, Pazit ^a   Eilam, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; Dead reckoning; External cues; Internal cues; Navigation; Orientation; Piloting; Systematic search

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THEORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DARKNESS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GERBILLINAE; LIGHT; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33745335274     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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