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Rats were tested in a specially constructed radial-arm maze that eliminated access to extramaze visual cues and allowed any effects of intramaze cues to be controlled. Despite this, choice accuracy was controlled by the spatial location of previously visited arms. Part of this control was attributed to vestibular or kinesthetic cues. This conclusion was corroborated by the finding that when explicit visual cues were moved from their standard (trained) spatial locations to novel locations, control of spatial choices was completely disrupted. The latter finding indicates that cues intrinsic to the rat (kinesthetic or vestibular information) and cues extrinsic to the rat (visual stimuli) operate in an integrated fashion.
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Experiment 3 was conducted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for J.A.M.’s master’s degree under the supervision of M.F.B.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03209855.
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Brown, M.F., Moore, J.A. In the dark II: spatial choice when access to extrinsic spatial cues is eliminated. Animal Learning & Behavior 25, 335–346 (1997). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03199091
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