Sequential control of navigation by locale and taxon cues in the Morris water task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 385-397

  Hamilton, Derek A ^a   Rosenfelt, Cory S ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; Cued navigation; Hippocampus; Morris water task; Place learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; KINEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TAXON; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING;

EID: 4143150535     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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