Egocentric and allocentric search: Effects of platform distance and environmental cues

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 565-581

  Tamara, Carolina ^a   Leffel, Joseph ^a   Timberlake, William ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Background cues; Egocentric and allocentric search; Landmarks; Locale learning; Spatial learning; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77954687642     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0307-z     Document Type: Article

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