Interacting Cache Memories: Evidence for Flexible Memory Use by Western Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma Californica)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-22

  Clayton, Nicola S ^a,b,c   Yu, Kara Shirley ^b   Dickinson, Anthony ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA CALIFORNICA; AVES; CORVIDAE; GRYLLIDAE;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; TIME;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037265957     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.29.1.14     Document Type: Article

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