Biases in measuring the brain: The trouble with the telencephalon

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 253-258

  LaDage, Lara D ^a   Roth II, Timothy C ^a   Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chickadees; Food caching; Hippocampus; Neuroecology; Telencephalon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; TELENCEPHALON;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIRDS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; ORGAN SIZE; TELENCEPHALON;

PARIDAE;

EID: 67449113450     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000225623     Document Type: Article

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