Spatial memory in the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)

Animal Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 599-609

  Lührs, Mia Lana ^a   Dammhahn, Melanie ^b   Kappeler, Peter M ^a,b   Fichtel, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlated random walk; Euclidean map; Goal directed movement; Microcebus murinus; Spatial cognition; Topological map

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PROSIMIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; CHEIROGALEIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 67949108055     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0219-y     Document Type: Article

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