Rotation of visual landmark cues influences the spatial response profile of hippocampal neurons in freely-moving homing pigeons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 473-477

  Hough, Gerald E ^a   Bingman, Verner P ^b  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Navigation; Pigeon; Place cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 38049056177     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.09.031     Document Type: Article

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