Spatial behavior: The impact of global and local geometry

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 341-350

  Ben Yehoshua, Dafna ^a   Yaski, Osnat ^a   Eilam, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; Environment geometry; Exploration; Geometric module; Home base behavior; Navigation; Spatial behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; GROUP PROCESS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; GROUP PROCESSES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79955059833     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0368-z     Document Type: Article

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