The role of extramaze cues in spontaneous alternation in a plus-maze

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-144

  Lennartz, Robert C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAMAZE CUES; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PLUS MAZE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 46649114433     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.36.2.138     Document Type: Article

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