Revisiting episodic-like memory in scrub jays: Is there more we can still learn from what-where-when caching behaviour?

Professor Nicola Clayton is perhaps best known for her work on food-caching scrub jays. Her seminal 1998 paper, together with Anthony Dickinson, showed that scrub jays could remember what food they had cached, where and how long ago, suggesting memory ability that is 'episodic-like' in nature. Here, we present data from a previously unpublished study that sought to replicate and extend these findings.

Latent Inhibition in Schizophrenia and Schizotypy.

Background: The Salience Hypothesis posits that aberrations in the assignment of salience culminate in hallucinations and unusual beliefs, the "positive symptoms" of schizophrenia. Evidence for this comes from studies on latent inhibition (LI), referring to the phenomenon that prior exposure to a stimulus impedes learning about the relationship between that stimulus and an outcome.

Design: This article reviewed all published studies examining the relationship between LI and both schizophrenia and schizotypy.

Episodic memory during middle childhood: What is developing?

Whereas previous research has concentrated on the emergence of episodic memory during the early years, fewer investigations have explored the details of this development through middle and late childhood. Considerable variation in task demands and testing methodologies have rendered the trajectory of episodic memory during this period unclear, particularly with regard to which elements are in a state of change at which time. This study separately assessed memory for item, location, and temporal order, as well as integrated what-where-when (WWW) information using a WWW memory test (the Treasure Hunt task), with 84 children aged 6 to 12 years.

Rethink reporting of evaluation results in AI.

Aggregate metrics and lack of access to results limit understanding.

Imagine this: Visualising a recent meal as bigger reduces subsequent snack intake.

Remembering a recent meal reduces subsequent intake of palatable snacks (i.e. the meal-recall effect), however, little is known about the factors which can potentiate this effect.