Large-scale navigational map in a mammal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 37, 2011, Pages

  Tsoar, Asaf ^a,e   Nathan, Ran ^a   Bartan, Yoav ^a   Vyssotskib, Alexei ^b   Dell'Omoc, Giacomo ^c   Ulanovskyd, Nachum ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c Ornis Italica   (Italy)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Israel Electric Corporation   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive map; Global positioning system; Movement ecology; Spatial memory; True navigation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLYING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LARGE SCALE NAVIGATIONAL MAP; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PATH ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; EGYPT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; VISION, OCULAR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80053077856     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107365108     Document Type: Article

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