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Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

1990

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Spatial Memory In Seed-Caching Corvids, Alan Kamil, Russell P. Balda Jan 1990

Spatial Memory In Seed-Caching Corvids, Alan Kamil, Russell P. Balda

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Our purpose in this article is to review the results of our studies of the mechanisms underlying cache recovery by members of the crow, jay, and nutcracker family. In this research program, we have combined psychological and ecological approaches to the study of memory, and the results demonstrate the utility of this interdisciplinary strategy. Unlike most psychological research on learning and memory, this research program originated in the study of how a particular species solves a particular ecological problem. It serves as an example of how natural history and ecology can provide the starting point for a research program that …