Learning to cope with two different food distributions: The performance of house mice (Mus musculus domesticus)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 272-280

  Valsecchi, Paola ^a   Bartolomucci, Alessandro ^a   Aversano, Marco ^b   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APPETITE; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85047677714     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.114.3.272     Document Type: Article

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