Sentence examples for pigeon brain from inspiring English sources
"Wu and Dickman have found cells in the pigeon brain that are tuned to specific directions of the magnetic field".
This suggests that the AN in the zebra finch brain (as identified by [12]) is functionally similar to NIML in the pigeon brain (as identified by Ref. [29]), which plays a role in initiating learned motor sequences.
The researchers developed tiny neurologgers, to record electrical activity in the pigeons' brains as they flew.
The Baylor researchers did a kind of step-by-step tracking of what areas in pigeons' brains were responding to variations in an artificial magnetic field that they created.
Researchers have spotted a group of 53 cells within pigeons' brains that respond to the direction and strength of the Earth's magnetic field.
To see how the pigeons' brains processed these sights, Alexei Vyssotski and colleagues at the University of Zurich in Switzerland developed the Neurologger2, a device that simultaneously tracks the birds' route while also recording brain activity as they fly over familiar sites.
Page A13 HOW PIGEONS NAVIGATE Researchers have identified cells in a pigeon's brain that record detailed information on the earth's magnetic field.
Now, two researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Le-Qing Wu and David Dickman, have solved a central part of that puzzle, identifying cells in a pigeon's brain that record detailed information on the earth's magnetic field, a kind of biological compass.
Neurons in a pigeon's brain encode the direction and intensity of the geomagnetic field.
So imagine yourself in the position of the pigeon; your brain knows very little about the world of men, or cages, or automatic food dispensers.
The music moves from musings about "spectral mist" and existential despair on Serpent ("Going to climb outside myself/ Burn my worries, leave my fears/ Evaporate and disappear") to more earthbound woe and wonder on Brain ("Pigeons outside, eating the seeds that you threw/ I want to know, what did I do?").
