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A Gallo1, A Elkhessaimi, J P Desportes
1Equipe Psycho-éthologie, Centre de Recherche en Biologie du Comportement, Université P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
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|June 5, 2014
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Rats which have been conditioned up to 50 or 600 reinforcements with CRF. procedure are submitted to a modification of the position of the lever or the food hopper. We show the existence of a spatial orientation learning, starting with a direction learning given by the "objects" (lever, food hopper) of the set-up and followed by a definite location learning.
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