Hippocampal lesions do not disrupt navigational map retention in homing pigeons under conditions when map acquisition is hippocampal dependent

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-42

  Gagliardo, Anna ^a   Ioalè, Paolo ^a   Odetti, Francesca ^a   Kahn, Meghan C ^b   Bingman, Verner P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Homing; Lesion; Navigational map; Orientation; Pigeon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIGHT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN DISEASES; COLUMBIDAE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MAPS; ORIENTATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3042647474     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2003.10.032     Document Type: Article

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