title: What-where-when memory in pigeons.
abstract: The authors report a novel approach to testing episodic-like memory for single events. Pigeons were trained in separate sessions to match the identity of a sample on a touch screen, to match its location, and to report on the length of the retention interval. When these 3 tasks were mixed randomly within sessions, birds were more than 80% correct on each task. However, performance on 2 different tests in succession after each sample was not consistent with an integrated memory for sample location, time, and identity. Experiment 2 tested binding of location and identity memories in 2 different ways. The results were again consistent with independent feature memories. Implications for tests of episodic-like memory are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Shannon I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Skov-Rackette
authors.forename: Noam Y
authors.initials: NY
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Sara J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Shettleworth
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D010856:Columbidae; D003216:Conditioning, Operant / Q000502:physiology; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013037:Spatial Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D013663:Teaching; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology