Do rats learn rules?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2009, Pages e1-

  Corballis, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

language; rat; rule learning

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; RODENT;

RATTUS;

EID: 70349190415     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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