Book chapter
Relational Discrimination Learning in Pigeons
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition
Oxford Library of Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2
03/20/2012
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195392661.013.0028
Abstract
This chapter explores the possibility that nonhuman animals are capable of conceptual thought. Specifically, we consider whether pigeons can learn same/different discriminations and transfer those discriminations to new stimuli, thereby testifying to the conceptual nature of that discrimination behavior. Considerable experimental evidence does indeed suggest that pigeons exhibit abstract conceptual thought, although controversy still surrounds the nature of that thinking and whether different tasks rely on different perceptual and conceptual processes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Relational Discrimination Learning in Pigeons
- Creators
- Robert G CookEdward A WassermanJennifer VonkDaniel J Povinelli
- Contributors
- Edward A Wasserman (Editor)Thomas R Zentall (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition
- Edition
- 2
- Series
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- DOI
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195392661.013.0028
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/20/2012
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070477802771
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