Food-caching chickadees know where to look.

Abstract

Food-caching chickadees are known to cache thousands of food items and retrieve these caches using, at least in part, spatial memory. New research shows memory recall is associated with remote activation of hippocampal place cells by gaze using two peaks in neuronal firing: an early peak predicts the gaze direction and a later peak reflects the gaze. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).