Event-based prospective memory in the rat.

ABSTRACT: People plan to act in the future when an appropriate event occurs, a capacity known as event-based prospective memory. Prospective memory involves forming a representation of a planned future action, subsequently inactivating the representation, and ultimately reactivating it at an appropriate point in the future. Recent studies suggest that monkeys, chimpanzees, and rats display elements of prospective memory, but it is uncertain if the full sequence (activation-inactivation-reactivation) that occurs in humans also occurs in nonhumans. Here, we asked if rats exhibit event-based prospective memory. Rats completed an ongoing temporal-discrimination task while waiting for a large meal. To promote the use of event-based prospective memory, we created an event (tone pulses) that provided infor

SUBMITTER: Wilson AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3690169 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature