Differences in Hippocampal Volume among Food Storing Corvids

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 156-164

  Basil, Jennifer A ^a   Kamil, Alan C ^b   Balda, Russell P ^c   Fite, Katherine V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching; Corvidae; Food storing; Hippocampal complex; Hippocampus; Memory; Spatial memory; Volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA ULTRAMARINA; AVES; CORVIDAE; GYMNORHINUS CYANOCEPHALUS; NUCIFRAGA; NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA; PINUS EDULIS;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOLUTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL RECALL; ORGAN SIZE; ORIENTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029690059     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113235     Document Type: Article

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