Hierarchical use of cues in the missing object recognition task by rats (Rattus norvegicus)
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Hierarchical use of cues in the missing object recognition task by rats (Rattus norvegicus).
This study investigated rats' preferences for using non-spatial and spatial cues in a missing-object recognition task. Rats were trained to find a sunflower seed under any one of four previously missing adjacent objects, the test array of a trial, after having found seeds under three of them in the 'study' array of that trial. On some trials the study and test arrays consisted of a different ob...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioural Processes
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0376-6357
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.04.007