Hippocampus and homing in pigeons: Left and right hemispheric differences in navigational map learning

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1617-1624

  Gagliardo, Anna ^a   Ioalè, Paolo ^a   Odetti, Francesca ^a   Bingman, Verner P ^b   Siegel, Jennifer J ^b   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain asymmetry; Hippocampus; Homing; Lateralization; Navigational map; Pigeon; Unilateral lesion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HATCHING; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEARNING; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COLUMBIDAE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; ORIENTATION;

EID: 0035002899     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01522.x     Document Type: Article

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