Manipulations of start and food locations affect navigation on a foraging task

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 288-299

  Martin, Gerard M ^a   Pirzada, Ashar ^a   Bridger, Alexander ^a   Tomlin, Julian ^a   Thorpe, Christina M ^a   Skinner, Darlene M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Navigation; Path Integration; Place learning; Proactive Interference; Retroactive Interference; Spatial Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155194982     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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