Seasonal hippocampal plasticity in food-storing birds

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1542, 2010, Pages 933-943

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caching; Hippocampus; Hoarding; Memory; Neurogenesis; Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; BRAIN; CACHING; COGNITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; PHOTOPERIOD; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEASONAL VARIATION;

AVES; CORVIDAE; NUCIFRAGA; PARIDAE; SITTIDAE;

EID: 77950273009     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0220     Document Type: Review

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