Human homing: still no evidence despite geomagnetic controls
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Human homing: still no evidence despite geomagnetic controls.
Baker's highly influential and widely cited studies suggest that people are capable of non-visual navigational performance comparable to that of homing pigeons. Past failures to replicate this work have been attributed by Baker to geomagnetic influences. We report a series of experiments in which both temporal and spatial geomagnetic controls were introduced. We could still find no evidence for...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 1986
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.120.1.325