Spatial reorientation in rats (Rattus norvegicus): Use of geometric and featural information as a function of arena size and feature location

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-291

  Maes, Joseph H R ^a   Fontanari, Laura ^b   Regolin, Lucia ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Featural information; Geometric information; Rattus norvegicus; Space size; Spatial reorientation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRAINING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 67349162956     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.02.026     Document Type: Article

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