Eurasian jays ( Garrulus glandarius ) overcome their current desires to anticipate two distinct future needs and plan for them appropriately
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Western scrub-jays ( Aphelocoma californica ) have been shown to overcome present satiety to cache food they will desire in the future. Here, we show that another corvid, the Eurasian jay ( Garrulus glandarius ), can distinguish between two distinct future desires and plan for each appropriately, despite experiencing a conflicting current motivation. We argue that these data address the criticisms of previous work, and suggest a way in which associative learning processes and future-oriented cognition may combine to allow prospective behaviour.
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- Authors
- Cheke, L. G., & Clayton, N. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Venue
- Biology Letters
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2011-11-02
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 171-175
- ISSN
- 1744-9561 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-957X
- PMC
- PMC3297405
- OpenAlex
- W2020633116
- Cited by
- 122
- References
- 15
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- FWCI
- 10.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Biology Letters (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- Eurasian jay, Garrulus glandarius, satiety, food caching, future-oriented cognition, associative learning, corvid cognition
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Appetite, Cognition, Cues, Feeding Behavior, Female, Food, Male, Motivation, Time Perception, Songbirds
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