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dc.contributor.authorLewis, Amy Victoria Mary
dc.contributor.authorBerntsen, Dorthe
dc.contributor.authorCall, Josep
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-17T10:30:01Z
dc.date.available2019-04-17T10:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-01
dc.identifier255852290
dc.identifier4165b033-b546-42c3-845e-9ab24cccc979
dc.identifier85059653968
dc.identifier000463632200002
dc.identifier.citationLewis , A V M , Berntsen , D & Call , J 2019 , ' Long-term memory of past events in great apes ' , Current Directions in Psychological Science , vol. 28 , no. 2 , pp. 117-123 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721418812781en
dc.identifier.issn0963-7214
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8597-8336/work/52572473
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8616-2411/work/52572474
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17539
dc.descriptionFunding: Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF89).en
dc.description.abstractIt has been claimed that the ability to recall personal past events is uniquely human. We review recent evidence that great apes can remember specific events for long periods of time, spanning months and even years, and that such memories can be enhanced by distinctiveness (irrespective of reinforcement) and follow a forgetting curve similar to that in humans. Moreover, recall is enhanced when apes are presented with features that are diagnostic of the event, consistent with notions of encoding specificity and cue overload in human memory. These findings are also consistent with the involuntary retrieval of past events in humans, a mode of remembering that is thought to be less cognitively demanding than voluntary retrieval. Taken together, these findings reveal further similarities between the way humans and animals remember past events and open new avenues of research on long-term memory in nonhuman animals.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofCurrent Directions in Psychological Scienceen
dc.subjectGreat apesen
dc.subjectLong-term memoryen
dc.subjectSpontaneous retrievalen
dc.subjectEpisodic memoryen
dc.subjectEvent memoryen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectQH Natural historyen
dc.subjectRC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatryen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.subject.lccQHen
dc.subject.lccRC0321en
dc.titleLong-term memory of past events in great apesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0963721418812781
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-04-01


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