Absence of Overshadowing Between a Landmark and Geometric Cues in a Distinctively Shaped Environment: A Test of Miller and Shettleworth (2007)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 357-370

  McGregor, Anthony ^a   Horne, Murray R ^b   Esber, Guillem R ^b   Pearce, John M ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

associative learning; geometric cues; landmarks; overshadowing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESCAPE REACTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 67650586621     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014536     Document Type: Article

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