Journal article
Effects of sample duration, retention interval, and passage of time in the test on pigeons’ matching-to-sample performance
Animal learning & behavior, Vol.13(2), pp.121-128
06/1985
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199264
Abstract
Four pigeons served as subjects in an experiment using the go/no-go delayed matching-to-sample paradigm. The go/no-go method was used because it permits the experimenter to track the time course of discriminative performance throughout the test period, unlike the conventional choice matching procedure. It was found that discriminative test performance increased with longer sample durations; performance decreased with longer retention intervals and also as time passed in the test period. The rate of forgetting was virtually the same when either the retention interval was lengthened or time elapsed in the test. These findings support a modified trace theory, which proposes that the sample stimulus trace decays at a constant rate from the point of sample offset, and that the decaying memory trace is repeatedly compared with the prevailing test stimulus as time passes in the test period.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Effects of sample duration, retention interval, and passage of time in the test on pigeons’ matching-to-sample performance
- Creators
- Veronika T GuttenbergerEdward A Wasserman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Animal learning & behavior, Vol.13(2), pp.121-128
- DOI
- 10.3758/BF03199264
- ISSN
- 0090-4996
- eISSN
- 1532-5830
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/1985
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070244202771
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