Elevation-related differences in memory and the hippocampus in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-127

  Freas, Cody A ^a   LaDage, Lara D ^a   Roth, Timothy C ^a   Pravosudov, Vladimir V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chickadee; Climate; Cognition; Food caching; Hippocampus; Memory; Poecile gambeli

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CACHING; CLIMATE EFFECT; COGNITION; ELEVATION; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PARUS GAMBELI; POECILE GAMBELI;

EID: 84862640697     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.04.018     Document Type: Article

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