Rats acquire a low-response-cost daily time-place task with differential amounts of food

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-78

  Thorpe, Christina M ^a,b   Wilkie, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAINING;

EID: 34249825492     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196076     Document Type: Article

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