Modeling the effects of enclosure size on geometry learning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 306-313

  Miller, Noam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Geometric module; Geometry; Rescorla Wagner model

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOMETRY; LEARNING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 60449114798     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.011     Document Type: Review

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