When a place is not a place: Encoding of spatial information is dependent on reward type

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1461-1479

  Sulikowski, Danielle ^a   Burke, Darren ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

foraging; resource distribution; spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA; MELIPHAGIDAE;

EID: 77956931381     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X521564     Document Type: Article

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