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Recent findings by Chettih et al. (Cell 187: 1922–1935, 2024) from electrophysiological recordings in the hippocampus of black-capped chickadees shed light on the debate about how food-hoarding Parids may remember their cache sites. When birds retrieve caches, a “bar code” is reactivated, which is very similar to the code generated when the same cache was made. The current evidence suggests that this bar code is only triggered after the bird starts to retrieve the cache, and not in anticipation. This finding is more consistent with cued recall than with free recall of cache locations.
Author(s): Smulders TV, Cheng S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Animal Cognition
Year: 2025
Volume: 28
Online publication date: 12/02/2025
Acceptance date: 21/01/2025
Date deposited: 12/02/2025
ISSN (print): 1435-9448
ISSN (electronic): 1435-9456
Publisher: Springer
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-025-01932-7
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01932-7
Data Access Statement: No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
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