Inhibition, the final frontier: The impact of hippocampal lesions on behavioral inhibition and spatial processing in pigeons

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-47

  Scarf, Damian ^a   Millar, Jessica ^a   Pow, Nadine ^a   Colombo, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Behavioral inhibition; Comparative neuroscience; Hippocampus; Lesion; Spatial processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893712023     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035487     Document Type: Article

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