Hippocampal formation is required for geometric navigation in pigeons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1937-1944

  Vargas, Juan Pedro ^a,b   Petruso, Edward J ^a   Bingman, Verner P ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Birds; Columba livia; Geometric module; Hippocampus; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; GEOMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 8144227587     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03654.x     Document Type: Article

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