Episodic-Like Memory in Rats: Is It Based on When or How Long Ago?

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 320; no. 5872; pp. 113 - 115
• Main Authors: Roberts, William A, Feeney, Miranda C, MacPherson, Krista, Petter, Mark, McMillan, Neil, Musolino, Evanya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Association for the Advancement of Science 04.04.2008; The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Animal memory; Animals; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Cues; Experimentation; Experiments; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; HLA antigens; Humans; Male; Maze Learning; Mazes; Memory; Miscellaneous; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Random Allocation; Rats; Rats, Long-Evans; Religious behavior; Rodents; Time Factors; Human; Vertebrata; Travel time; Mammalia; Rat; Animal; Rodentia; Cognition; Experimental study; Episodic memory

Recent experiments with rats suggest that they show episodic-like or what-where-when memory for a preferred food found on a radial maze. Although memory for when a salient event occurred suggests that rats can mentally travel in time to a moment in the past, an alternative possibility is that they r...