Dimensions of corvid consciousness

Animal Cognition, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 28(1)

Опубликована: Май 2, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Episodic-like memory in wild free-living blue tits and great tits

Current Biology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 34(16), С. 3593 - 3602.e5

Опубликована: Июль 3, 2024

Episodic-like memory in non-human animals represents the behavioral characteristics of human episodic memory-the ability to mentally travel backward time "re-live" past experiences. A focus on traditional model species episodic-like may overlook taxa possessing this cognitive and consequently its evolution across species. Experiments conducted wild have potential broaden scope research under natural conditions which they evolved. We combine two distinct yet complementary tasks (the what-where-when incidental encoding paradigms), each targeting a different aspect memory, namely content (what-where-when) process (incidental encoding), comprehensively test abilities wild, free-living, non-caching blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) great (Parus major). Automated feeders with custom-built programs allowed for experimental manipulation spatiotemporal experiences an individual-level basis. In experiment, after learning individualized temporal feeder rules, birds demonstrated their recall "what" (food type), "where" (feeder location), "when" (time since initial visit day) previous foraging showed that were able encode spatial information regarding ("where" test), juveniles, but not adults, also incidentally encoded visual ("which" test). Consequently, study presents multiple lines converging evidence population generalist foragers, suggesting be more taxonomically widespread than previously assumed.

Язык: Английский

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Is episodic-like memory like episodic memory?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 379(1913)

Опубликована: Сен. 15, 2024

Episodic memory involves the conscious recollection of personally experienced events and when absent, results in profound losses to typical human experience. Over last 2.5 decades, debate surrounding whether episodic is unique humans has seen a lot controversy accordingly received significant research attention. Various behavioural paradigms have been developed test episodic-

Язык: Английский

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Mental time travel in the rat

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 379(1913)

Опубликована: Сен. 15, 2024

I outline the perspective that searching contents of memory is a form mental time travel (MTT) in non-humans relatively tractable because it focuses on memory. propose an animal model MTT requires three elements: (i) remembers multiple events using episodic memory, (ii) order included representation, and (iii) sequence can be searched to find target occurred at particular time. review experiments suggesting rats represent items (element 1) occurrence 2) engage replay search representations sequential information points 3). The cognitive building blocks needed for may quite old evolutionary timescale.This article part theme issue 'Elements memory: lessons from 40 years research'.

Язык: Английский

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The complex affective and cognitive capacities of rats

Science, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 385(6715), С. 1298 - 1305

Опубликована: Сен. 19, 2024

For several decades, although studies of rat physiology and behavior have abounded, research on emotions has been limited in scope to fear, anxiety, pain. Converging evidence for the capacity many species share others’ affective states emerged, sparking interest empathic capacities rats. Recent demonstrated that rats are a highly cooperative motivated by distress prosocial actions, such as opening door or pulling chain release trapped conspecifics. Studies affect, cognition, neural function provide compelling some represent needs, instrumentally act improve their well-being, thus capable forms targeted helping. Rats’ complex abilities raise importance integrating new measures well-being into scientific research.

Язык: Английский

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Episodic Memory in Animals

Philosophy Compass, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 20(5)

Опубликована: Апрель 30, 2025

ABSTRACT Do animals have episodic memory—the kind of memory which gives us rich details about particular past events—or is this uniquely human? This might look like an empirical question, but attracting increasing philosophical attention. We review relevant behavioural evidence, as well drawing attention to neuroscientific and computational evidence has been less discussed in philosophy. Next, we distinguish evaluate reasons for scepticism animals. In the process, articulate three pressing issues underlying these sceptical arguments, should be focus future work. The Problem Interspecific Variation asks differences between humans animal mean that a variant memory, it different altogether. Functional how conceptualise functions other capacities across species evolutionary time. Finally, Alternatives what, besides explain evidence—and competing explanations.

Язык: Английский

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Replay of incidentally encoded novel odors in the rat

Animal Cognition, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 27(1)

Опубликована: Июнь 14, 2024

Abstract Although events are not always known to be important when they occur, people can remember details about such incidentally encoded information using episodic memory. Sheridan et al. (2024) argued that rats replayed memories of in an unexpected assessment In one task, reported the third-last item explicitly list trial-unique odors. a second foraged radial maze absence On critical test, maze, but scented lids covered food. Next, memory odor was assessed. The correctly answered question. Because odors used test were same as those during training, automatically encoding for purpose taking upcoming (stimulus generalization) may have been encouraged. Here, we provided opportunity incidental novel Previously trained with entirely covering High accuracy confronted provides evidence did encode ruling out stimulus generalization. We conclude multiple pieces putatively unimportant information, and later stream needed solve problem.

Язык: Английский

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Animal cognition: Time mapping in the wild

Current Biology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 34(13), С. R620 - R622

Опубликована: Июль 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Validation of a rodent model of episodic memory replay

Learning & Behavior, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 53(1), С. 31 - 43

Опубликована: Июль 17, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Comparative cognition: Free-living birds remember things past

Current Biology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 34(16), С. R772 - R774

Опубликована: Авг. 1, 2024

Язык: Английский

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