Using ecology to guide the study of cognitive and neural mechanisms of different aspects of spatial memory in food-hoarding animals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1542, 2010, Pages 883-900

  Smulders, Tom V ^a   Gould, Kristy L ^b   Leaver, Lisa A ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative cognition; Corvidae; Food storing; Neuroecology; Paridae; Rodentia

Indexed keywords

CACHING; COGNITION; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; PASSERINE; RODENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; CORVIDAE; PARIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 77950197169     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0211     Document Type: Review

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