Twenty food deprived hooded rats received nine trials per day for a total of fourteen days on an elevated T-maze in a test for spontaneous alternation.  Both goal boxes of the T-maze always contained a reward of one dextrose pellet

Cavalcant, Roy Dennis

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1972
Spontaneous alternation as a function of iti and
maze position
Roy Dennis Cavalcant
Lehigh University
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