Episodic-like memory: Pigeons can report location pecked when unexpectedly asked

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-98

  Zentall, Thomas R ^a   Singer, Rebecca A ^b   Stagner, Jessica P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Declarative memory; Episodic memory; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; EPISODIC EVENT; MEMORY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PIGEON; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

COLUMBA;

EID: 48949102874     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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