Remembrance of Places You Passed: Social Spatial Working Memory in Rats

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-224

  Brown, Michael F ^a   Farley, Robert F ^a   Lorek, Edward J ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

animal social behavior; social memory; spatial learning; spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; MALE; MAZE TEST; ORIENTATION; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VISION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34548861760     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.3.213     Document Type: Article

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