Can animals recall the past and plan for the future?

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 685-691

  Clayton, Nicola S ^a   Bussey, Timothy J ^a   Dickinson, Anthony ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRD; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; ANIMAL; FORECASTING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALIA; APHELOCOMA; AVES; CORVIDAE;

ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; FORECASTING; MENTAL RECALL; PLANNING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0041736025     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1180     Document Type: Article

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