Question

Place cells, which are located in the hippocampus, become active in birds when searching for previously-hidden food. Helping them remember where things are, these cells help animals create a:____________

Answer 1

Spatial memory

Step-by-step explanation:

When the need arise to plan and manoeuvre ones way out of a familiar location,or to recollect where particular object is located or an incident happened, the type of memory stored and retrieved from the brain is called Spatial memory.

Generally,animals store information about their environments during their itineraries at different locations,as spatial representation memories of the environments.These are stored in their hippocampus. These are retrieved each time they need to navigate in the environment.

Generally the hippocampus located in the temporal lobes,and medial temporal lobes are the sites where the spatial memory of the environment is stored,and retrieved by the animals(birds)

Generally the hippocampus is the region of the brain which helps to produce ,consolidates,and recollects memories of a specific events in all animals.