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Time-Place learning

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With Time-Place Learning (TPL), animals link events (e.g. finding food, encountering a predator) with the location and time of occurrence. This way, animals can decide which locations to visit/avoid based on previous experience and knowledge of the current time of day.

For review see [1]

References

  1. ^ Mulder, Cornelis (2013). "Circadian clocks and memory: time-place learning". Front Mol Neurosci. 6. doi:10.3389/fnmol.2013.00008. PMID 23596390. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)