Clayton & Dickinson (1998)

Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays

Nature, 395(6699), 272-274

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Clayton, N. S., & Dickinson, A. (1998). Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays. Nature, 395(6699), 272-274. https://doi.org/10.1038/26216

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Episodic Memory Memory Systems

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In animal work, where re-experiencing cannot be asked about, the behavioural criterion is memory for what happened, where, and when; scrub jays met it by searching for perishable wax worms only when little time had passed since caching, which the authors called episodic-like memory