Spatial-specificity of single-units in the hippocampal formation of freely moving homing pigeons

Hippocampus

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-40

  Siegel, Jennifer J ^a,b,d   Nitz, Douglas ^c   Bingman, Verner P ^a,b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^c NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Dorsomedial forebrain; Hippocampus; Place cells; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; REWARD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COLUMBIDAE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 14844297029     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20025     Document Type: Article

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