The neuroethology of cognitive maps: Contributions from research on the hippocampus and homing pigeon navigation

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 73-92

  Casini, G ^a   Fontanesi, G ^b   Bingman, V P ^c   Jones, T J ^c   Gagliardo, A ^b   Ioale P ^b   Bagnoli, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; COLUMBIDAE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAMMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031042260     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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