Do discrimination tasks discourage multi-dimensional stimulus processing?. Evidence from a cross-modal object discrimination in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-221

  Jeffery, Kathryn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Configural learning; Cross modal integration; Object processing; Rat; Simultaneous discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; HABIT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; REACTION TIME; SMELL;

EID: 34548295859     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.06.017     Document Type: Article

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