Mental time travel: animals anticipate the future.
Recent behavioral experiments with scrub jays and nonhuman primates indicate they can anticipate and plan for future needs not currently experienced. Combined with accumulating evidence for episodic-like memory in animals, these studies suggest that some animals can mentally time travel into both the past and future.
Roberts
William A
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Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C2, Canada. roberts@uwo.ca <roberts@uwo.ca>
D000818:Animals; D001066:Appetite; D003463:Cues; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D009042:Motivation; D046109:Passeriformes / Q000502:physiology*; D013998:Time Perception