PERFORMANCE OF 4 SEED-CACHING CORVID SPECIES IN OPERANT TESTS OF NONSPATIAL AND SPATIAL MEMORY

被引:108
作者
OLSON, DJ
KAMIL, AC
BALDA, RP
NIMS, PJ
机构
[1] UNIV NEBRASKA,DEPT PSYCHOL,LINCOLN,NE 68588
[2] NO ARIZONA UNIV,DEPT BIOL SCI,FLAGSTAFF,AZ 86011
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D O I
10.1037/0735-7036.109.2.173
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The performance of 4 seed-caching corvid species was tested using 2 different operant nonmatching tasks. These species differ in their dependence on stored food, and differences in spatial memory tests have been correlated with better performance by the more cache-dependent species, Acquisition and retention of a color non-matching-to-sample task was tested in Experiment 1. Acquisition of the color task was not correlated with cache dependence, and no differences between species in performance during memory testing were found. Acquisition and retention of an operant spatial non-matching-to-sample task was tested in Experiment 2. Species differences in the spatial task were found for acquisition and during retention testing. The influence of natural history on the evolution of memory is discussed.
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