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Display Variability and Spatial Organization as Contributors to the Pigeon's Discrimination of Complex Visual Stimuli
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Display Variability and Spatial Organization as Contributors to the Pigeon's Discrimination of Complex Visual Stimuli

Edward A Wasserman, Michael E Young and Brian C Nolan
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, Vol.26(2), pp.133-143
04/2000
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.26.2.133
PMID: 10782429

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Abstract

Three experiments assessed the contributions of display variability and spatial organization to the pigeon's discrimination of 16-icon visual displays. After training to discriminate 4 x 4 arrays of same and different computer icons, 4 pigeons were shown testing displays that systematically manipulated the variability of the depicted icons and their spatial organization on the display screen. Display variability and spatial organization each reliably controlled the pigeon's behavior. These seemingly separate effects could be collectively explained by the pigeon's discriminating the amount of variability or entropy in localized regions of the display.

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