A landmark blocks searching for a hidden platform in an environment with a distinctive shape after extended pretraining

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-178

  Horne, Murray R ^a,b   Pearce, John M ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENT; GEOMETRY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RAT; SWIMMING POOL; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ESCAPE REACTION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 67649398916     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.37.2.167     Document Type: Article

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