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Kealy, John, Diviney, Mairead, Kehoe, Elizabeth, McGonagle, Vanessa, O'Shea, Adrienne, Harvey, Deirdre and Commins, Sean (2008) The effects of overtraining in the Morris water maze on allocentric and egocentric learning strategies in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 192 (2). pp. 259-263. ISSN 0166-4328
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Egocentric; Allocentric; Spatial navigation; Water maze; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
| Item ID: | 10714 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.04.009 |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Sean Commins |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2019 14:26 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Behavioural Brain Research |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/10714 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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