Avian navigation: Head direction cells in the quail hippocampus

Aylin Apostel; Jonas Rose

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.071

Avian navigation: Head direction cells in the quail hippocampus

Curr Biol. 2021 Jun 21;31(12):R781-R783. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.071.

Authors

Aylin Apostel¹, Jonas Rose²

Affiliations

¹ Neural Basis of Learning, Department of Psychology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. Electronic address: Aylin.Klarer@ruhr-uni-bochum.de.
² Neural Basis of Learning, Department of Psychology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. Electronic address: Jonas.Rose@ruhr-uni-bochum.de.

PMID: 34157259
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.071

Abstract

Birds are experts in many behaviors akin to those in mammals that are known to involve the hippocampus, yet the avian hippocampus is still poorly understood. A new study finds head-direction cells, but not place cells, in the hippocampal formation of quails.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Hippocampus
Mammals
Place Cells*
Quail*