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Do lizards have object permanence?

Asked by will (104points) February 28th, 2010

Do reptiles track moving objects when they are obscured, as in Piaget’s object permanence?

I read an article suggesting that the fact that animals leave home and find their way back necessarily means they have the capacity, but it seems like imagining the motion of an obscured object and remembering relative locations are two different functions.

I’m working on an essay about the the prefrontal cortex and trying to come up with examples of types of brain functioning that develop in more complex species that don’t exist for reptiles.

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