Cross-modal associative mnemonic signals in crow endbrain neurons

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 2196-2201

  Moll, Felix W ^a   Nieder, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

associations; audio visual; bird; carrion crow; cross modal; internal signal; NCL; working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; CORVUS CORONE;

ANIMAL; CORVUS; DECISION MAKING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROWS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 84939485906     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.013     Document Type: Article

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