Abstract In this review, we present an overview of studies on cognition in the family Paridae (tits, titmice, and chickadees). Parids are especially interesting for cognition studies for several reaso...

CN | José Mena Àlvarez   El totestiu Parus major és una espècie de pardalet passeriforme de la família dels pàrids. D’uns 14 cm, es inconfusible per la «corbata» negra, més marcada en els mascles, sob...

【Anim Cogn】<AbstractText>Recent findings by Chettih et al. (Cell 187: 1922-1935, 2024) from electrophysiological recordings in ...

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.

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.

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...