Mechanisms of what-where-when memory in black-capped chickadees (poecile atricapillus): Do chickadees remember " when"?

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 308-316

  Feeney, Miranda C ^a   Roberts, William A ^a   Sherry, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Episodic like memory; How long ago cues; Mental time travel; Time perception; When cues; WWW memory

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EPISODIC MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SONGBIRD; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MEMORY, EPISODIC; PASSERIFORMES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 80051994851     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023635     Document Type: Article

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