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Thursday, 28 April 2011 16:30

Monkeys, too, can recollect what they've seen

It's one thing to recognize your childhood home when you see it in a photograph and quite another to accurately describe or draw a picture of it based on your recollection of how it looked. A new report published online on April 28 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, offers some of the first clear evidence that monkeys, like humans, have the capacity for both forms of memory.

Read more http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-04/cp-mtc042511.php