Poulter, S.L. and Kosaki, Y. and Easton, A. and McGregor, A. (2013) 'Spontaneous object recognition memory is maintained following transformation of global geometric properties.', Journal of experimental psychology : animal behavior processes., 39 (1). pp. 93-98.
Abstract
Studies of spontaneous behavior to assess memory are widespread, but often the relationships of objects to contexts and spatial locations are poorly defined. We examined whether object-location memory was maintained following global, but not local, changes to the geometric shape of an arena. Rats explored two trial-unique objects in a distinctively shaped arena before being exposed to two identical copies of one of these objects in a different shape in a different physical location. Rats preferentially explored objects that were novel in relation to their local geometric context rather than identifying both locations as novel in the global geometric context.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (308Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030698 |
| Publisher statement: | This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 27 March 2013 |
| Date of first online publication: | January 2013 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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