PS261 Lecture Notes - Episodic Memory, New Caledonian Crow, Spatial Memory
Document Summary
Research on the remarkable ability of some bird species to retrieve food that they previously stored in various locations. Studies of food caching are a major source of information about spatial memory and episodic memory in nonhuman species. We look at how behaviour is organized in time, a ubiquitous feature of the environment, and how organisms learn about the serial order of stimuli, which is a pre-requisite for numerical skill. We also talk about research on tool use, with emphasis on recent research on tool use in. Most complex cognitive behaviour = language (collection of cognitive skills evident in a number of nonhuman species) Stores 33,000 seeds in caches of 4- 5 seeds each and recovers several thousand of these months later. Stores hundreds of individual seeds and recovers them a month later. These birds live in alpine areas of the us and harvest seeds from pine cones in late summer and early autumn.