Human Brain Project at USC: Hippocampus and Navigation Group
Miller's Experiment: The Runway Maze and the Competing Nodes Hypothesis
Miller (1959) studied the behavior of a rat on a runway from A to B, with the rat encountering food and shock at B on different occasions. He found monotonically decreasing gradients of approach and avoidance with a crossover point a which vaccilation takes place.
[Drives] [Maze] [World Graph nodes: "Place Code"]
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