References & Sources  -  September 19, 1998

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Birds can remember what, where, and when

Scrub jays can remember not only what kind of food they hid and where but also when they buried it.

 

References:

Clayton, N.S., and A. Dickinson. 1998. Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays. Nature 395(Sept. 17):272.

 

Further Readings:

Bower, B. 1997. Factual brains, uneventful lives. Science News 152(Aug. 2):75.

______. 1997. Heading out the hippocampus. Science News 152(Aug. 2):75.

______. 1994. Brain scans show two-sided memory flow. Science News 145(March 26):199.

 

Sources:

Nicola S. Clayton
University of California, Davis
Section of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
179 Briggs Hall
One Sheilds Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8519

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 12, September 19, 1998, p. 181.
Copyright © 1998 by Science Service.

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