Participation of the homing pigeon thalamofugal visual pathway in sun-compass associative learning

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 197-210

  Budzynski, Cheri A ^a,c   Gagliardo, Anna ^b   Ioalé, Paolo ^b   Bingman, Verner P ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Columba livia; Ectostriatum; Spatial associative learning; Visual wulst

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; NERVE LESION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0036460737     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01833.x     Document Type: Article

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