What is the nature of cache memory in Parids? A comment on Chettih et al. 2024

IF 1.9 2区生物学 Q3 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI:10.1007/s10071-025-01932-7

Tom V. Smulders, Sen Cheng

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Abstract

Recent findings by Chettih et al. (Cell 187: 1922–1935, 2024) from electrophysiological recordings in the hippocampus of black-capped chickadees shed light on the debate about how food-hoarding Parids may remember their cache sites. When birds retrieve caches, a “bar code” is reactivated, which is very similar to the code generated when the same cache was made. The current evidence suggests that this bar code is only triggered after the bird starts to retrieve the cache, and not in anticipation. This finding is more consistent with cued recall than with free recall of cache locations.

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Animal Cognition 生物-动物学

CiteScore

4.50

自引率

18.50%

发文量

125

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal offering current research from many disciplines (ethology, behavioral ecology, animal behavior and learning, cognitive sciences, comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology) on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary framework. Animal Cognition publishes original empirical and theoretical work, reviews, methods papers, short communications and correspondence on the mechanisms and evolution of biologically rooted cognitive-intellectual structures. The journal explores animal time perception and use; causality detection; innate reaction patterns and innate bases of learning; numerical competence and frequency expectancies; symbol use; communication; problem solving, animal thinking and use of tools, and the modularity of the mind.