PS261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Path Integration, Morris Water Navigation Task, Cognitive Map
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What is learned about space: maze, blocked off one of the maze. So now it looks like a t. start animal at the bottom. Always give it food when it goes down the right arm. So, we flip the maze: start at the top now and could learn to always turn right. Then when you test them then they learned a fixed response. Beacon learning: beacons indicate a location that is at the beacon, i"ll meet you at pizza pizza , beacon that is cue that is at the location it indicates, morris water maze, large tub filled with water. Landmark learning: a landmark is a cue that indicates some other location. Indicates a location that is somewhere relative to the landmarks: i"ll meet you 3 meters to the north of pizza pizza, all around the room are indicators of landmarks. Path integration (a. k. a dead reckoning: when you fly, walk, etc.
