Evidence for perceptual neglect of environmental features in hippocampal-lesioned pigeons during homing

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3102-3110

  Gagliardo, Anna ^a   Pollonara, Enrica ^a   Coppola, Vincent J ^b   Santos, Carlos D ^c,d   Wikelski, Martin ^c,e   Bingman, Verner P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Columba livia; Hippocampus; Navigation; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLYING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL NEGLECT; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL NAVIGATION;

EID: 84908254144     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12680     Document Type: Article

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