Rule learning by rats

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5871, 2008, Pages 1849-1851

  Murphy, Robin A ^a   Mondragón, Esther ^a   Murphy, Victoria A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; NORM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CUES; LEARNING; MALE; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 41349090814     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151564     Document Type: Article

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