Beacon Training in a Water Maze Can Facilitate and Compete With Subsequent Room Cue Learning in Rats

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-243

  Timberlake, William ^a   Sinning, Susan A ^a   Leffel, Joseph K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cue competition; facilitation; locale learning; spatial learning; water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; ORIENTATION; RAT; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SWIMMING;

RATTUS;

EID: 34548844437     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.3.225     Document Type: Article

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