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Animal memory: episodic-like memory in rats.

Roberts WA

Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C2, Canada. roberts@uwo.ca

Recent experiments with rats on a radial maze indicate that they can remember what foods they encountered, and when and where they encountered them. These findings, and others with food-storing birds, challenge the idea that only humans have episodic memory.

Published 7 August 2006 in Curr Biol, 16(15): R601-3.
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