Hippocampus and memory in a food-storing and in a nonstoring bird species

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 946-964

  Hampton, Robert R ^a,b   Shettleworth, Sara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; FOOD STORAGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; BIRDS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MENTAL RECALL; ORGAN SIZE; ORIENTATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029962720     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.946     Document Type: Article

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