You scolded a cat yesterday for playing with curtains, but today she does it again. This behavior can make you think that your pet cannot remember anything after a few minutes. Although cats are notoriously difficult to train, they still have long-term memory.
Cats brain
The brain of cats and cats is much smaller than ours, but in general they pretty similar. It also has temporal, occipital and parietal lobes, as in the human brain. The brain of cats also consists of white and gray matter, and the same five standard senses send information in it. The most common theory about cat memory is a neural theory. The brain of cats has many connections between their neurons. Each neuron stores a small piece of information, and when a certain combination of neurons, cats, is activated recall information from their past.
Long-term and short-term memory
In one of the experiments where the cat needed to find food, short-term memory of cats amounted to 16 hours, which is much more similar memory even in dogs, which is only up to 5 minutes. Long-term feline memory is even more powerful. Despite the fact that a cat can remember only a few people or places in long-term memory, she can remember them for many years. Cats can remember certain places or people practically all ones life. Their most susceptible age is from 2 to 7 weeks. If the wild kitten had no contact during this period with people, then he will never be able to trust them.
Learning ability
Cats’ memory and decision-making skills develop up to age 2 or 3 years. They learn through observation. They can find out how open the doors if they see how you do it. They will learn to hunt and look after themselves, watching how their mother does it. In addition, they are even able to solve puzzles. If you saw how your cat makes five precise jumps to 5 different places, just to get on a cabinet or fridge, you could be witness to this albeit simple, but not trivial puzzle.
Aging and memory
With age, the brain functions of cats will decline. Cognitive cat dysfunction is a disease that is similar to a disease Alzheimer’s in humans. It is caused by a deterioration in the state of the brain itself, which leads to a decrease in its cognitive functions. Cats with this the disease has orientation problems, and can be easily disoriented even in a familiar place. Accident next to toilet tray may be a direct result of this, since the cat could just forget where it is or why.
Cats can also become more antisocial and start spend long periods of time alone, on their own. As with people, their memory will not be as acute as in youth.
