What can homing pigeons tell us about navigational impairments in Alzheimer patients? Activational effects of odors

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 494-496

  Phillips, John B ^a   Jorge, Paulo E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Homing pigeons; Human dementia; Navigation; Olfactory activation; Path integration; Way finding

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 77951961965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.6.9407     Document Type: Article

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