City rats: Insight from rat spatial behavior into human cognition in urban environments

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 655-663

  Yaski, Osnat ^a   Portugali, Juval ^a   Eilam, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; Exploration; Orientation; Spatial behavior; Spatial representation; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 85027935255     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0400-y     Document Type: Article

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