Prospective memory in the rat
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The content of prospective memory is comprised of representations of an action to perform in the future. When people form prospective memories, they temporarily put the memory representation in an inactive state while engaging in other activities, and then activate the representation in the future. Ultimately, successful activation of the memory representation yields an action at an appropriate, but temporally distant, time. A hallmark of prospective memory is that activation of the memory representation has a deleterious effect on current ongoing activity. Recent evidence suggests that scrub jays and non-human primates, but not other species, are capable of future planning. We hypothesized that prospective memory produces a selective deficit in performance at the time when rats access a memory representation but not when the memory representation is inactive. Rats were trained in a temporal bisection task (90 min/day). Immediately after the bisection task, half of the rats received an 8-g meal (meal group) and the other rats received no additional food (no-meal group). Sensitivity to time in the bisection task was reduced as the 90-min interval elapsed for the meal group but not for the no-meal group. This time-based prospective-memory effect was not based on response competition, an attentional limit, anticipatory contrast, or fatigue. Our results suggest that rats form prospective memories, which produces a negative side effect on ongoing activity.
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Rats have been argued to show behavioural and neurological evidence for what appears to be future planning, or at least precursors to planning.
“rats have been argued to show behavioural and neurological evidence for what appears to be future planning [172], or at least, the precursors to planning [89,173,174].”
From Is episodic-like memory <i>like</i> episodic memory? (2024) · cites this paper as [174]
Animals are capable of prospective memory.
“There is evidence that animals are capable of prospective memory defined as an ability to inactivate an action for a current situation but re-activate it again at an appropriate future time point (Wilson and Crystal, 2012; Wilson et al., 2013a).”
From The medial prefrontal cortex - hippocampus circuit that integrates information of object, place and time to construct episodic memory in rodents: Behavioral, anatomical and neurochemical properties (2020) · cites this paper as Wilson and Crystal, 2012
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- Authors
- Wilson, A. G., & Crystal, J. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Georgia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Crystal, Jonathon D.
- ORCID
- Crystal, Jonathon D.
- Venue
- Animal Cognition
- Published
- 2011-09-16
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 349-358
- ISSN
- 1435-9448 (ISSN-L)
- 1435-9456
- PMC
- PMC3292651
- OpenAlex
- W2132029142
- Cited by
- 50
- References
- 61
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- 2024: 1 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 5.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Animal Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH080052)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- prospective memory, rats, temporal bisection, time perception, future planning, response competition, fatigue
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Feeding Behavior, Male, Time Factors, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Rats, Anticipation, Psychological, Memory, Episodic
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