Animals make memories about their environment and their movements within it and use the information in these memories to guide subsequent decision-making (Shettleworth, 2010). Food caching animals, for example, possess extraordinary spatial memory that is adaptive in the context of locating stored food (Sherry & Duff, 1996;Smith & Reichman, 1984). The information that an animal stores in memory is a function of the sensory biology and ecology of the
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