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Reproductive Memory Processes in Chimpanzees: Homologous Approaches to Research on Human Working Memory

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Memory is extremely important to our everyday activities. We cannot recognize, plan, or decide even a trivial issue unless we can hold information in mind for periods of time and retrieve it from our memory. This is also the case in nonhuman animals. Thus, it is not surprising that research on animal memory has a long history (Hunter 1913; Tinklepaugh 1928), as well as research on human memory (Ebbinghaus 1885).

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  1. Department of Behavior Brain Science, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, 41 Kanrin, Inuyama, Aichi, 484-8506, Japan

    Nobuyuki Kawai & Tetsuro Matsuzawa

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Kawai, N., Matsuzawa, T. (2008). Reproductive Memory Processes in Chimpanzees: Homologous Approaches to Research on Human Working Memory. In: Matsuzawa, T. (eds) Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-09423-4_11

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