The seasonal hippocampus of food-storing birds

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 334-338

  Sherry, David F ^a   Hoshooley, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black capped chickadee; Food storing; Hippocampus; Neurogenesis; Seasonality; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CACHING; DOMINANCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MEMORY; PASSERINE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL COGNITION;

EID: 60449105306     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.012     Document Type: Review

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