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Modelling of What-Where-When Everyday Memories in Rats.

Kayleigh Kanakis¹, Richard G M Morris², Francesco Gobbo^2,3

¹School of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Medical, Veterinary, and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

The European Journal of Neuroscience

|October 14, 2025

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Rats can learn and recall specific food locations and understand temporal differences in flavor availability. These findings offer new models for studying episodic-like memory components in the brain.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Animal Behavior
Cognitive Science

Background:

Episodic memory involves what, where, and when an event occurred.
Episodic-like memory studies in animals face limitations.
Neural correlates of 'what-where-when' are known but their integration is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce novel behavioral paradigms for studying episodic-like memory in rats.
To model the 'what-when' and 'where' components of memory.
To provide a basis for investigating memory storage and retrieval.

Main Methods:

Developed two new behavioral tasks based on everyday memory.
Experiment 1 (E1) tested spatial memory for food locations.
Experiment 2 (E2) tested temporal memory for flavor replenishment.

Main Results:

Rats learned to independently retrieve food from two distinct daily positions.
Rats learned to use temporal information about flavor replenishment for decision-making.
Demonstrated rats' ability to integrate 'what', 'where', and 'when' information.

Conclusions:

The developed paradigms effectively model key components of episodic-like memory.
These tasks facilitate research into the neural basis of memory storage and retrieval.
Future studies can utilize these models for single-unit recording and calcium imaging.