Transitive behavior in hippocampal-lesioned pigeons

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 181-188

  Strasser, Rosemary ^a   Ehrlinger, Joyce M ^b   Bingman, Verner P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Conditional discrimination; Hippocampus; Non spatial learning; Pigeon; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SERIAL LEARNING;

AVES; COLUMBA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542283670     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076442     Document Type: Article

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