Journal article
Pigeons' discrimination of Michotte's launching effect
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.86(2), pp.223-237
09/2006
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2006.60-05
PMCID: PMC1592358
PMID: 17002229
Abstract
We trained four pigeons to discriminate a Michotte launching animation from three other animations using a go/no-go task. The pigeons received food for pecking at one of the animations, but not for pecking at the others. The four animations featured two types of interactions among objects: causal (direct launching) and noncausal (delayed, distal, and distal & delayed). Two pigeons were reinforced for pecking at the causal interaction, but not at the noncausal interactions; two other pigeons were reinforced for pecking at the distal & delayed interaction, but not at the other interactions. Both discriminations proved difficult for the pigeons to master; later tests suggested that the pigeons often learned the discriminations by attending to subtle stimulus properties other than the intended ones.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Pigeons' discrimination of Michotte's launching effect
- Creators
- Michael E Young - Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL 62901-6502, USA. meyoung@siu.eduJoshua S BeckmannEdward A Wasserman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.86(2), pp.223-237
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1901/jeab.2006.60-05
- PMID
- 17002229
- PMCID
- PMC1592358
- ISSN
- 0022-5002
- eISSN
- 1938-3711
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2006
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070453202771
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