Behavioural effects of ablations of the presumed 'prefrontal cortex' or the corticoid in pigeons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-162

  Gagliardo, Anna ^a   Bonadonna, Francesco ^b   Divac, Ivan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Ctro di Stud per la F   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bird neostriatum; Delayed alternation; Species comparison; Visual discrimination; Y maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030222093     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00243-X     Document Type: Article

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