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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 98, 期 12, 页码 6941-6944出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.121034798
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Volumetric studies in a range of animals (London taxi-drivers, polygynous male voles, nest-parasitic female cowbirds, and a number of food-storing birds) have shown that the size of the hippocampus, a brain region essential to learning and memory, is correlated with tasks involving an extra demand for spatial]earning and memory. In this paper, we report the quantitative advantage that food storers gain from such an enlargement. Coal tits (Paros ater) a food-storing species, performed better than great tits (Paros major), a nonstoring species, on a task that assessed memory persistence but not on a task that assessed memory resolution or on one that tested memory capacity. These results show that the advantage to the food-storing species associated with an enlarged hippocampus is one of memory persistence.
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