The avian hippocampus, homing in pigeons and the memory representation of large-scale space

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 555-564

  Bingman, Verner P ^a   Gagliardo, Anna ^b   Hough II, Gerald E ^a   Ioalé, Paolo ^b   Kahn, Meghan C ^a   Siegel, Jennifer J ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 22844444573     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/45.3.555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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