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
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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