Response properties of avian hippocampal formation cells in an environment with unstable goal locations

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-163

  Kahn, Meghan C ^a   Siegel, Jennifer J ^b   Jechura, Tammy J ^c   Bingman, Verner P ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Columba livia; Hippocampus; Pigeon; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; COLUMBIDAE; ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GOALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 43849087352     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.023     Document Type: Article

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