Full Idea
To map things like food over time, animals must somehow represent events as having temporal properties, and somehow store those representations ready for later use.
Gist of Idea
Animals map things over time as well as over space
Source
Georges Rey (Contemporary Philosophy of Mind [1997], 4.3)
Book Reference
Rey,Georges: 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' [Blackwell 1997], p.126
A Reaction
If the mechanisms for doing this are basic, then so is the ontology. Objects must be categorised, properties spotted, time-spans correlated etc. 'Represent' needs to be sharp to be useful.