What-where-when memory in pigeons.

Skov-Rackette, Shannon I.; Miller, Noam; Shettleworth, Sara J.

doi:10.1037/0097-7403.32.4.345

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“…So far, the ability to integrate all three aspects of episodic memory has been convincingly demonstrated only in food-caching jays (Clayton et al 2001(Clayton et al , 2003. Pigeons, however, have demonstrated that they can encode, but not bind together, information on identity, location and time (Skov-Rackette et al 2006). Apes can recall "where and what" (reviewed in Schwartz and Evans 2001) and "what and who" (Schwartz et al 2002) attributes of unique events.…”

Section: What-where-how Much and Whenmentioning

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A socioecological perspective on primate cognition, past and present

Cunningham

Janson

2007

Anim Cogn

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The papers in this special issue examine the relationship between social and ecological cognition in primates. We refer to the intersection of these two domains as socioecological cognition. Examples of socioecological cognition include socially learned predator alarm calls and socially sensitive foraging decisions. In this review we consider how primate cognition may have been shaped by the interaction of social and ecological inXuences in their evolutionary history. The ability to remember distant, out-of-sight locations is an ancient one, shared by many mammals and widespread among primates. It seems some monkeys and apes have evolved the ability to form more complex representations of resources, integrating "what-where-how much" information. This ability allowed anthropoids to live in larger, more cohesive groups by minimizing competition for limited resources between group members. As group size increased, however, competition for resources also increased, selecting for enhanced social skills. Enhanced social skills in turn made a more sophisticated relationship to the environment possible. The interaction of social and ecological inXuences created a spiraling eVect in the evolution of primate intelligence. In contrast, lemurs may not have evolved the ability to form complex representations which would allow them to consider the size and location of resources. This lack in lemur ecological cognition may restrict the size of frugivorous lemur social groups, thereby limiting the complexity of lemur social life. In this special issue, we have brought together two review papers, Wve Weld studies, and one laboratory study to investigate the interaction of social and ecological factors in relation to foraging. Our goal is to stimulate research that considers social and ecological factors acting together on cognitive evolution, rather than in isolation. Cross fertilization of experimental and observational studies from captivity and the Weld is important for increasing our understanding of this relationship.

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A socioecological perspective on primate cognition, past and present

Cunningham

Janson

2007

Anim Cogn

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“…In this respect, it will be interesting to find out in which animals there is binding of the what, where and when (in pigeons, e.g. the memory of these components is not bound or integrated; Skov- Rackette et al 2006). In particular, the specific way in which these components are bound might suggest the sort of problem it has evolved to solve.…”

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Problems faced by food-caching corvids and the evolution of cognitive solutions

Grodzinski

Clayton

2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The scatter hoarding of food, or caching, is a widespread and well-studied behaviour. Recent experiments with caching corvids have provided evidence for episodic-like memory, future planning and possibly mental attribution, all cognitive abilities that were thought to be unique to humans. In addition to the complexity of making flexible, informed decisions about caching and recovering, this behaviour is underpinned by a motivationally controlled compulsion to cache. In this review, we shall first discuss the compulsive side of caching both during ontogeny and in the caching behaviour of adult corvids. We then consider some of the problems that these birds face and review the evidence for the cognitive abilities they use to solve them. Thus, the emergence of episodic-like memory is viewed as a solution for coping with food perishability, while the various cacheprotection and pilfering strategies may be sophisticated tools to deprive competitors of information, either by reducing the quality of information they can gather, or invalidating the information they already have. Finally, we shall examine whether such future-oriented behaviour involves future planning and ask why this and other cognitive abilities might have evolved in corvids.

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“…Skov-Rackette, Miller, and Shettleworth (2006) examined memory for what-where-when information in pigeons. The pigeons were trained on three separate tasks: (1) an identity matching-to-sample task in which the pigeon had to respond to the recently presented stimulus, (2) a spatial matching-to-sample task in which the pigeon had to respond to the location where the stimulus was presented, and (3) a temporal discrimination task in which the pigeon had to report how much time had elapsed since the stimulus was presented (3 seconds vs. 6 seconds) by responding to one of two symbols which represented these two intervals.…”

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“…The present set of experiments provides the first systematic analysis of what-where-when integration in nonhuman primates. We investigated whether rhesus monkeys could report what , where , and when information using a computerized task similar to the task used by Skov-Rackette et al (2006). Although episodic memories are often retrieved from long-term memory, it has been argued that they are typically encoded first in working memory, through the use of an episodic buffer that temporarily binds information together before it is transferred to long-term memory (Baddeley, 2000).…”

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Memory for “what”, “where”, and “when” information in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

Hoffman

Beran

Washburn

2009

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

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The present study examined working memory for what, where, and when information in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) using a computerized task. In Experiment 1, monkeys completed three delayed matching-to-sample (DMTS) tasks: (1) identity DMTS, (2) spatimal DMTS, and (3) temporal DMTS. In Experiment 2, the identity and spatial tasks were combined so that monkeys had to report both what and where information about an event. In Experiment 3, the identity, spatial, and temporal tasks were combined to examine what-where-when memory integration. The rhesus monkeys reported all three components of the events, and there was some evidence suggesting that these components were integrated in working memory.

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What-where-when memory in pigeons.

Cited by 53 publications

References 27 publications

A socioecological perspective on primate cognition, past and present

A socioecological perspective on primate cognition, past and present

Problems faced by food-caching corvids and the evolution of cognitive solutions

Memory for “what”, “where”, and “when” information in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

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