Horizontal biases in rats' use of three-dimensional space

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-288

  Jovalekic, Aleksandar ^a,b   Hayman, Robin ^a   Becares, Natalia ^a   Reid, Harry ^a   Thomas, George ^a   Wilson, Jonathan ^a   Jeffery, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Axona Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D; Detour; Foraging; Navigation; Rats; Vertical

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79955966557     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.035     Document Type: Article

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