Memory and hippocampal specialization in food-storing birds: Challenges for research on comparative cognition

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 108-116

  Shettleworth, Sara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birds; Black capped chickadee; Dark eyed junco; Food storing; Hippocampus; Paridae; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN SIZE; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOOD STORAGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPECIES COMPARISON; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; JUNCO; JUNCO HYEMALIS; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; POECILE; POECILE ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 0141522504     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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