Effects of hippocampal lesions on spatial operant discrimination in pigeons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-84

  Watanabe, Shigeru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Hippocampus; Pigeon; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032859178     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00028-5     Document Type: Article

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