Navigation in homing pigeons (Columba livia) (data from Gagliardo et al. 2014)

dc.contributor.authorGagliardo, Anna
dc.contributor.authorPollonara, Enrica
dc.contributor.authorCoppola, Vincent J
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Carlos D
dc.contributor.authorWikelski, Martin
dc.contributor.authorBingman, Verner P
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-31T19:59:25Z
dc.date.available2014-07-31T19:59:25Z
dc.date.issued2014-07-31
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.5441/001/1.fh860r2f/1
dc.identifier.urihttps://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.370
dc.relation.ispartofdoi:10.5441/001/1.fh860r2f
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.1111/ejn.12680
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subjectanimal navigation
dc.subjectanimal tracking
dc.subjectColumba livia
dc.subjecthippocampus
dc.subjecthoming pigeon
dc.subjectnavigation
dc.subjectspatial behaviour
dc.subjectspatial cognition
dc.titleNavigation in homing pigeons (Columba livia) (data from Gagliardo et al. 2014)
dc.typeDataset
dspace.entity.typeData package
dwc.ScientificNameColumba livia
mdr.citation.BibTex
@misc{001/1_fh860r2f/1,
  title = {Navigation in homing pigeons (Columba livia) (data from Gagliardo et al. 2014)},
  author = {Gagliardo, A and Pollonara, E and Coppola, VJ and Santos, CD and Wikelski, M and Bingman, VP},
  year = {2014},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.fh860r2f/1},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.fh860r2f/1},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
mdr.citation.CSE
Gagliardo A, Pollonara E, Coppola VJ, Santos CD, Wikelski M, Bingman VP. 2014. Navigation in homing pigeons (Columba livia) (data from Gagliardo et al. 2014). Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.fh860r2f/1
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AU  - Gagliardo, Anna
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AU  - Santos, Carlos D
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AU  - Bingman, Verner P
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