Memory in food-storing birds: from behaviour to brain |
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Authors: | NS Clayton JR Krebs |
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Affiliation: | Department of Zoology, Oxford University, UK. |
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Abstract: | As a result of natural history studies, it has been hypothesized that food-storing birds may develop a special kind of memory to cope with the demand imposed by their food-storing behaviour (i.e. the ability to retrieve food from a wide variety of stores over varying amounts of time after storage). Recent studies on food-storing birds suggest that, at a relatively late stage in their development, the specific memories associated with food-storing behaviour can stimulate growth of the hippocampus, an area of the brain concerned with memory processing. |
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