Visual landmarks facilitate rodent spatial navigation in virtual reality environments

Learning and Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 84-90

  Youngstrom, Isaac A ^a   Strowbridge, Ben W ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STEREOTYPY; TRAINING; TREADMILL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858594453     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.023523.111     Document Type: Article

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