Do animals have cognitive maps?

Do animals have cognitive maps?

Drawing on studies of humans, rodents, birds and arthropods, I show that 'cognitive maps' have been used to describe a wide variety of spatial concepts. There are, however, two main definitions. One, sensu Tolman, O'Keefe and Nadel, is that a cognitive map is a powerful memory of landmarks which allows novel short-cutting to occur. The other, sensu Gallistel, is that a cognitive map is any repr...

Do Animals Have Personality?

In the scenic Rocky Mountain town of Banff, Alberta, the site of Canada’s oldest national park, it is not un common to see elk grazing on lawns or near riverside trails. Why are elk wandering about town? The town may act as a refuge from wolves—a species that usually goes out of its way to avoid human contact. But elk “ townies,” as the locals refer to them, are a new phenomenon. Prior to the 1...

Animal Minds Do Animals have Emotional Lives?

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Do Older Professional Musicians Have Cognitive Advantages?

The current study investigates whether long-term music training and practice are associated with enhancement of general cognitive abilities in late middle-aged to older adults. Professional musicians and non-musicians who were matched on age, education, vocabulary, and general health were compared on a near-transfer task involving auditory processing and on far-transfer tasks that measured spat...