Slope-based encoding of a goal location is unaffected by hippocampal lesions in homing pigeons (Columba livia)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 322-326

  Nardi, Daniele ^a   Bingman, Verner P ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Columba livia; Geometry; Hippocampus; Homing pigeon; Slope; Vertical dimension

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; COLUMBIDAE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; GOALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MICROELECTRODES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349299778     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.08.018     Document Type: Article

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