Growing in circles: Rearing environment alters spatial navigation in fish

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 569-573

  Brown, Alisha A ^a   Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Hurd, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CICHLID; CONFLICT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CICHLIDS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547378119     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01941.x     Document Type: Article

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