Data from: Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons
Data from: Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons
Citation
Wikelski M, Gagliardo A, Bingman VP. 2020. Data from: Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3Abstract
The avian hippocampal formation (HF) is thought to regulate map-like memory representations of visual landmarks/landscape features and has more recently been suggested to be similarly important for the perceptual integration of landmarks/landscapes. Aspects of spatial memory and perception likely combine to support the now well-documented ability of homing pigeons to learn to retrace the same route when homing from familiar locations, leading to the prediction that damage to the HF would result in a diminished ability to repeatedly fly a similar route home. HF-lesioned homing pigeons were repeatedly released from three sites to assess the importance of the hippocampus as pigeons gradually learn a familiar route home guided by familiar landmark and landscape features. As expected, control pigeons displayed increasing fidelity to a familiar route home, and by inference, successful perceptual and memory processing of familiar landmarks/landscape features. By contrast, the impoverished route fidelity of the HF-lesioned pigeons indicated an impaired sensitivity to the same landmark/landscape features.
Keywords
Columba livia, animal tracking, Columba livia, GPS logger, homing pigeon, navigation, route fidelity
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@misc{001/1_6v5c77t3,
title = {Data from: Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons},
author = {Wikelski, M and Gagliardo, A and Bingman, VP},
year = {2020},
URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3},
doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3},
publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}RIS
TY - DATA ID - doi:10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3 T1 - Data from: Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons AU - Wikelski, Martin AU - Gagliardo, Anna AU - Bingman, Verner P. Y1 - 2020/09/29 KW - Columba livia KW - animal movement KW - animal tracking KW - Columba livia KW - GPS logger KW - homing pigeon KW - navigation KW - route fidelity KW - Columba livia PB - Movebank data repository UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3 DO - doi:10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3 ER -