Do Clark's nutcrackers demonstrate what-where-when memory on a cache-recovery task?

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-44

  Gould, Kristy L ^a   Ort, Amy J ^b   Kamil, Alan C ^b,c  

^a LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cache recovery; Clark's nutcracker; Episodic like memory; What where when memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PASSERIFORMES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

AVES; NUCIFRAGA;

EID: 84855241372     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0429-y     Document Type: Article

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