Experience-dependent changes in the hippocampus of domestic chicks: A model for spatial memory

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1065-1068

  Freire, Rafael ^a   Cheng, Heng Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b Poultry Building   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Chicken; Development; Memory; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; GOLGI STAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CHICKENS; DENDRITES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4344569028     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03545.x     Document Type: Article

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