Hippocampal lesions in homing pigeons do not impair feature-quality or feature-quantity discrimination

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 260, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-91

  Coppola, Vincent J ^a,b   Spencer, Joy M ^a,b   Peterson, Ryan M ^a,b   Bingman, Verner P ^a,b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mind and Behavior   (United States)

Author keywords

Columba livia; Feature discrimination; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLUMBA LIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COLUMBA LIVIA; FEATURE DISCRIMINATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FOOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84890749983     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.11.038     Document Type: Article

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