2304 Bio: Spatial Representation & Navigation

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'Egocentric is relative to the environment frames of reference & allocentric is relative to the individual frames of reference.'
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What did Tolman et al. (1946) find?
Rats have a sense of direction & can take short-cuts only if there is a beacon (light associated with food).
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What did Suzuki et al. (1980) find?
Rats used landmarks to navigate & rearrangement worsened performance.
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What did O'Keefe & Nadel (1978) find?
Hippocampal lesions disrupted rats performance in the Morris water maze.
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What is the cognitive map hypothesis?
Easier for rats to learn additional configuration because they have previous knowledge.
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What is the blocking hypothesis?
Not easy for rats to apply different configurations if they have not learned them.
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