Color reversal-learning deficits after tectofugal pathway lesions in the pigeon telencephalon

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Chaves, Lin M ^a   Hodos, William ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Lesions; Pigeon; Reversal learning; Tectofugal; Telencephalon; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERSAL LEARNING; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0031886363     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00074-0     Document Type: Article

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