Hippocampal-dependent familiar area map supports corrective re-orientation following navigational error during pigeon homing: A GPS-tracking study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2389-2400

  Gagliardo, Anna ^a   Ioalè, Paolo ^a   Savini, Maria ^a   Dell'Omo, Giacomo ^b   Bingman, Verner P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Ornis Italica   (Italy)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; GPS; Hippocampus; Homing pigeon; Landmark navigation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; LANDSCAPE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; COLUMBIDAE; DENERVATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GOALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 67449108652     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06793.x     Document Type: Article

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