Abstract
The performance of 4 seed-caching corvid species was tested using 2 different operant non-matching tasks. These species differ in their dependence on stored food, and differences in spatial memory tests have been correlated with better performance by the more cache-dependent species. Acquisition and retention of a color non-matching-to-sample task was tested in Experiment 1. Acquisition of the color task was not correlated with cache dependence, and no differences between species in performance during memory testing were found. Acquisition and retention of an operant spatial non-matching-to-sample task was tested in Experiment 2. Species differences in the spatial task were found for acquisition and during retention testing. The influence of natural history on the evolution of memory is discussed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 173-181 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Comparative Psychology |
Volume | 109 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1995 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Psychology (miscellaneous)