Why some memories do not last a lifetime: dynamic long-term retrieval in changing environments

TY - JOUR

T1 - Why some memories do not last a lifetime: dynamic long-term retrieval in changing environments

AU - Dunlap, Aimee S.

AU - McLinn, Colleen M.

AU - MacCormick, Holly A.

AU - Scott, Matthew E.

AU - Kerr, Benjamin

N1 - Memory is a fundamental component of learning, a process by which individuals alter their behavior through experience. Although memory most likely has explicit costs such as synaptic maintenance and metabolic demands, there are also implicit costs to memory, in particular, the use of information that is no longer appropriate or is incorrect.

PY - 2009/9/1

Y1 - 2009/9/1

UR - https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/20/5/1096/211644

U2 - 10.1093/beheco/arp102

DO - 10.1093/beheco/arp102

M3 - Article

VL - 20

JO - Behavioral Ecology

JF - Behavioral Ecology

ER -