Animal cognition: bumble bees suffer 'false memories'

Animal cognition: bumble bees suffer 'false memories'

The existence of 'false memories', where individuals remember events that they have never actually experienced, is well established in humans. Now a new study reports that insects similarly form illusory memories through merging of memory traces.

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Veröffentlicht in:Current biology 2015-03, Vol.25 (6), p.R236-R238
1. Verfasser: Reinhard, Judith
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Animals
Bees - physiology
Bombus
Cognition - physiology
Humans
Memory - physiology
Models, Animal
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Zusammenfassung:The existence of 'false memories', where individuals remember events that they have never actually experienced, is well established in humans. Now a new study reports that insects similarly form illusory memories through merging of memory traces.
ISSN:0960-9822
1879-0445
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2015.01.072