Journal article
Memory-based same-different conceptualization by pigeons
Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.4(4), pp.552-558
12/01/1997
DOI: 10.3758/BF03214348
Abstract
We first trained pigeons to peck one button (same) after the successive presentation of 16 identical pictures and to peck a second button (different) after the successive presentation of 16 non-identical pictures. Later, we tested the birds with other lists of same and different items composed of completely novel pictures. Accuracy to the testing lists reliably exceeded chance levels, thus demonstrating same-different conceptualization by pigeons under conditions that, for the first time, (1) eliminated purely perceptual mechanisms of discrimination learning and transfer and (2) required memory-based processing of the experimental stimuli.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Memory-based same-different conceptualization by pigeons
- Creators
- M E YoungE A WassermanR M Dalrymple
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.4(4), pp.552-558
- DOI
- 10.3758/BF03214348
- ISSN
- 1069-9384
- eISSN
- 1531-5320
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/1997
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984070759002771
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