Potentiation and overshadowing between landmarks and environmental geometric cues

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 371-382

  Horne, Murray R ^a   Pearce, John M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geometry; Landmarks; Overshadowing; Potentiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856263226     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-011-0032-8     Document Type: Article

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