Book chapter
Categorical Discrimination in Humans and Animals
Psychology of Learning and Motivation, pp.145-184
Elsevier Science & Technology
2012
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394393-4.00005-4
Abstract
Discriminating same from different collections of stimuli is central to human thought and reasoning. Recent comparative research suggests that same–different discrimination behavior is neither uniquely human nor does it require human language. The present research pursued the nature of same–different discrimination behavior by exploring how pigeons and people categorize collections of stimuli that contain members of the same category that are distinctively different from one another. These “categorical” stimulus collections were discriminated in decidedly different ways by pigeons and people. Possible reasons for this striking discrepancy are considered in light of the mechanisms and functions of abstract conceptualization.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Categorical Discrimination in Humans and Animals
- Creators
- Edward A WassermanLeyre Castro
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Psychology of Learning and Motivation, pp.145-184
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science & Technology
- DOI
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-394393-4.00005-4
- eISSN
- 1557-802X
- ISSN
- 0079-7421
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070519602771
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