title: The influence of landmark salience in a navigation task: an additive effect between its components.
abstract: In 2 experiments, rats were trained in a Morris pool to find a hidden platform in the presence of 1 landmark. After acquisition, the rats were tested without the platform. Experiment 1 tested whether the size of a landmark and its relative distance from the platform are additive effects. On test, the rats' best performance was with a near and big landmark; intermediate performance was with either a near and small landmark or a far and big one; and the worst performance was with a far and small landmark. The results of Experiment 2 suggested that the different distances from the goal of the 2 landmarks might not be sufficient to explain the previous results.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Psicologia Básica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. victoria.diez.chamizo@ub.edu
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Chamizo
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rodrigo
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Peris
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grau
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D004215:Distance Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D004924:Escape Reaction / Q000502:physiology; D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D018782:Maze Learning / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D020318:Rats, Long-Evans; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013037:Spatial Behavior / Q000502:physiology*