Long-Term Retention of Visual Tasks by Two Species of Emydid Turtles, Pseudemys nelsoni and Trachemys scripta.

Long-lived species are expected to have long-term memory capabilities. In this study we tested nine Florida Red-bellied Cooters (Pseudemys nelsoni) on their retention for both a procedural food acquisition task and visual discrimination task learned in a previous experiment. The turtles were tested...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Comparative Psychology Vol. 126; no. 3; pp. 213 - 224
Autores principales:	Davis, Karen M., Burghardt, Gordon M.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	American Psychological Association Aug2012
Materias:	Behaviorism (Psychology) Cognitive ability Visual discrimination Psychology of learning Animal models in research Long-term memory
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