Mental time travel in animals: A challenging question

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-183

  Zentall, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animals; Episodic memory; Mental time travel; Prospective memory; Retrospective memory

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; LEARNING; MEMORY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MEMORY; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PLANNING; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; RATS; TIME PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33244469559     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.01.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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