Where Am I? Distal Cue Use Requires Sensitivity to Start Location Change in the Rat

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 92-99

  Horne, Murray R ^a   Martin, Gerard M ^a   Harley, Carolyn W ^a   Skinner, Darlene M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

place learning; plus maze; surface cues

Indexed keywords

RATTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; RAT;

ANIMALS; CUES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34249723215     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.2.92     Document Type: Article

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