The ecology of the avian brain: Food-storing memory and the hippocampus

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Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-46

  Krebs, John R ^a   Clayton, Nicky S ^a   Healy, Susan D ^b   Cristol, Daniel A ^a   Patel, Sanjay N ^a   Jolliffe, Anna R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIAN BRAIN; BRAIN; FOOD STORAGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY;

EID: 0029730244     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1996.tb04311.x     Document Type: Article

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