Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4314981 | Behavioural Brain Research | 2008 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Animals can use both allocentric and egocentric strategies to learn a spatial task. Our results suggest that allocentric cues are more dominant than idiothetic cues in guiding navigation. Animals do not necessarily learn an egocentric strategy automatically, instead they probably hold just one solution to any particular task at a time until forced to learn an alternative strategy. Further, with overtraining animals do not always switch from allocentric to an egocentric learning strategy perhaps challenging suggestions of a stored hierarchy of strategies.
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Authors
John Kealy, Mairead Diviney, Elizabeth Kehoe, Vanessa McGonagle, Adrienne O'Shea, Deirdre Harvey, Sean Commins,