Journal article
Novelty and functional equivalence in superordinate categorization by pigeons
Animal learning & behavior, Vol.26(2), pp.125-138
06/1998
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199206
Abstract
Superordinate categorization via association with a common response was studied in pigeons. Original training paired disparate classes (e.g., people + chairs and cars + flowers) with a common response (Responses 1 and 2, respectively). Reassignment training taught new responses (Responses 3 and 4, respectively) to one component class from each pair (e.g., people and cars). Superordinate categorization was documented in testing when the pigeons made the same responses to the stimuli that were withheld in reassignment training (e.g., chairs and flowers) as they did to the reassigned stimuli themselves (e.g., people and cars) and when the birds transferred these discriminative responses to novel stimuli from all four component classes. Reassignment training with novel stimuli produced effects that were similar to those of reassignment training with familiar stimuli. Superordinate categorization via association with a common response is thus a robust effect that generalizes to novel stimuli from each of the component classes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Novelty and functional equivalence in superordinate categorization by pigeons
- Creators
- Suzette Astley - Department of Psychology Cornell College 600 First St. W. 52314-1098 Mt. Vernon IAEdward Wasserman - University of Iowa Iowa City Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Animal learning & behavior, Vol.26(2), pp.125-138
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag; New York
- DOI
- 10.3758/BF03199206
- ISSN
- 0090-4996
- eISSN
- 1532-5830
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/1998
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070276902771
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