Center for Avian Cognition

 

Date of this Version

2013

Citation

Published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 39:2 (2013), pp 187–192. doi 10.1037/a0031979

Comments

Copyright © 2013 American Psychological Association. Used by permission. “This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.”

Abstract

To determine what factors are important for minimizing interference effects in spatial memory, Clark’s Nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana were tested for their spatial memory for two serial lists of locations per day. In this experiment two unique landmark sets were either different between List 1 and List 2 or the same. We found that Nutcrackers were most susceptible to interference when the landmark sets were the same. This study suggests that repeatedly testing animal memory in the same room, with the same cues, can hamper recall due to interference.

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