Cognitive Maps In Rats

But i shall also attempt in a few words at the close to indicate the significance of these findings on rats for the clinical behavior of men. Tolman designed a research study which found that rats can create cognitive maps of a maze through latent learning. While all students agree as to the facts reported, they disagree on theory and explanation.

Cognitive maps in rats and robots. Entitled 'cognitive maps in rats and men', although mainly about rats, it put forward the idea that the rodents built up so called 'cognitive maps' over time that enabled them to steer their way about their environments. (c) performed normally during the transfer tests indicating that they used a cognitive mapping strategy, and (d) performed poorly in the.

I shall devote the body of this paper to a description of experiments with rats.

Signals) from the environment and. But i shall also attempt in a few words at the close to indicate the significance of these findings on rats for the clinical behavior of men. Suster 1, jiemin shen 1 & bruce l. We asked whether rats have the ability to form a cognitive map in the absence of distinctive intramaze or extramaze cues.