The role of local, distal, and global information in latent spatial learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 212-224

  Gilroy, Kerry E ^a,b   Pearce, John M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; Latent learning; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898645757     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xan0000017     Document Type: Article

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