Data from: Evidence for pre-mnemonic, perceptual neglect of environmental features in hippocampal lesioned pigeons during homing

Gagliardo A, Pollonara E, Coppola VJ, Santos CD, Bingman VP. 2014. Data from: Evidence for pre-mnemonic, perceptual neglect of environmental features in hippocampal lesioned pigeons during homing. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.fh860r2f

Abstract

The importance of the vertebrate hippocampus in spatial cognition is often related to its broad role in memory. However, in birds, the hippocampus appears to be more specifically involved in spatial processes. The maturing of GPS-tracking technology has enabled a revolution in navigation research, including the expanded possibility of studying brain mechanisms that guide navigation in the field. By GPS-tracking homing pigeons released from distant, unfamiliar sites prior to and after hippocampal lesion, we observed, as has been reported previously, impaired navigational performance postlesion over the familiar/memorized space near the home loft, where topographic features constitute an important source of navigational information. The GPS-tracking revealed that many of the lost pigeons, when lesioned, approached the home area, but nevertheless failed to locate their loft. Unexpectedly, when they were hippocampal-lesioned, the pigeons showed a notable change in their behaviour when navigating over the unfamiliar space distant from home; they actually flew straighter homeward-directed paths than they did prelesion. The data are consistent with the hypothesis that, following hippocampal lesion, homing pigeons respond less to unfamiliar visual, topographic features encountered during homing, and, as such, offer the first evidence for an unforeseen, perceptual neglect of environmental features following hippocampal damage.

Keywords

Columba livia,animal tracking,Columba livia,hippocampus,homing pigeon,navigation,spatial behaviour,spatial cognition

Taxa

Taxon

Columba livia

Common Pigeon, Rock Dove, Rock Pigeon

Sensors

Sensor

GPS

DOIs of related Publications

https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12680

URI

https://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.369

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@misc{001/1_fh860r2f,
  title = {Data from: Evidence for pre-mnemonic, perceptual neglect of environmental features in hippocampal lesioned pigeons during homing},
  author = {Gagliardo, A and Pollonara, E and Coppola, VJ and Santos, CD and Bingman, VP},
  year = {2014},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.fh860r2f},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.fh860r2f},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}

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T1  - Data from: Evidence for pre-mnemonic, perceptual neglect of environmental features in hippocampal lesioned pigeons during homing
AU  - Gagliardo, Anna
AU  - Pollonara, Enrica
AU  - Coppola, Vincent J
AU  - Santos, Carlos David
AU  - Bingman, Verner P.
Y1  - 2014/07/31
KW  - Columba livia
KW  - animal navigation
KW  - animal tracking
KW  - Columba livia
KW  - hippocampus
KW  - homing pigeon
KW  - navigation
KW  - spatial behaviour
KW  - spatial cognition
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