Cues used by male and female hooded rats for locating a brightness change

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-87

  Hughes, Robert N ^a   Maginnity, Michelle E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Egocentric and allocentric clues; Memory; Rat; Responsiveness to change; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; LIGHT EFFECT; MALE; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845186111     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.09.014     Document Type: Article

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