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EFFECTS OF SPATIAL REARRANGEMENT OF OBJECT COMPONENTS ON PICTURE RECOGNITION IN PIGEONS
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EFFECTS OF SPATIAL REARRANGEMENT OF OBJECT COMPONENTS ON PICTURE RECOGNITION IN PIGEONS

Kim Kirkpatrick‐Steger, Edward A Wasserman and Irving Biederman
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.65(2), pp.465-475
03/1996
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1996.65-465
PMCID: PMC1350158
PMID: 8851541
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Abstract

Five pigeons were first trained to discriminate among line drawings of four objects: a watering can, an iron, a desk lamp, and a sailboat The birds were then tested with eight versions of each object, in which the object's components were vertically and horizontally rearranged. The pigeons displayed different degrees of generalization decrement to the different scrambled versions of the objects. Two analyses helped to clarify the nature of the varied accuracy scores. First, cluster analyses disclosed subsets of components that were related to test performance. Second, although the clusters varied somewhat across birds for a given object, there was reliable concordance among the subjects in their rankings of the individual scramblings, suggesting that the pigeons may have attended to common aspects of the drawings.
pigeon attention stimulus control picture perception

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