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© The Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2024.We recently showed that food-hoarding birds use familiarity processes more than recollection processes when remembering the spatial location of their caches (Smulders et al., Animal Cognition 26:1929–1943, 2023). Pravosudov (Learning & Behavior, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-023-00616-x, 2023) called our findings into question, claiming that our method is unable to distinguish between recollection and familiarity, and that associative learning tasks are a better way to study the memory for cache sites. In this response, we argue that our methods would have been more likely to detect recollection than familiarity, if Pravosudov’s assertions were correct. We also point out that associative learning mechanisms may be good for building semantic knowledge, but are incompatible with the needs of cache site memory, which requires the unique encoding of caching events.
Author(s): Smulders TV, Read JCA
Publication type: Note
Publication status: Published
Journal: Learning and Behavior
Year: 2024
Pages: epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 16/05/2024
Acceptance date: 26/04/2024
ISSN (print): 1543-4494
ISSN (electronic): 1543-4508
Publisher: Springer
URL: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00630-7
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-024-00630-7
