The Memory of Animals: From the Costa Novel Award-winning author of Unsettled Ground

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They can fly back the same route they came and they can keep many different routes and items in their long-term memory.In the laboratory, animals push levers, pull strings, dig for food, swim in water mazes, or respond to images on computer screens to get information for discrimination, attention, memory, and categorization experiments. Attention refers to mental processes that select relevant information, inhibit irrelevant information, and switch among these as the situation demands.

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Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers―Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper―cannot hide from the mistakes that led them there. Equally interesting are those perceptual processes that differ from, or go beyond those found in humans, such as echolocation in bats and dolphins, motion detection by skin receptors in fish, and extraordinary visual acuity, motion sensitivity and ability to see ultraviolet light in some birds.If in a later test session the animal goes to a box that has never been baited, this indicates a failure of reference memory. g. red vs orange) than it is after training on a different dimension such as an X shape versus an O shape. In addition to the ape-language experiments mentioned above, there have also been more or less successful attempts to teach language or language-like behavior to some non-primate species, including parrots and great spotted woodpeckers. If the second response differs consistently from the first, the animal must have remembered something about the first, unless some other factor such as motivation, sensory sensitivity, or the test stimulus has changed. One of the more interesting ways to process events is to alter or reimagine them, and this is Claire Fuller’s approach in her fifth novel, The Memory of Animals.

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But when the world outside her hospital window is utterly transformed, Neffy finds herself abandoned – along with the remaining four other volunteers – in a future they never believed could actually unfold.She asks whether I had a good journey even though she must know they sent a car and that I sat in the back with a plastic screen between me and the driver.