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Stimulus control by same-versus-different relations among multiple visual stimuli
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Stimulus control by same-versus-different relations among multiple visual stimuli

Edward A Wasserman, Andrea J Frank and Michael E Young
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, Vol.28(4), pp.347-357
10/2002
DOI: 10.1037//0097-7403.28.4.347
PMID: 12395492

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Abstract

The authors devised a go/no-go discrimination learning task that allowed but did not require pigeons to report (a) from which of 2 different sets a collection of visual items was drawn and (b) the relations between or among the items as being the same as or different from one another. The results of 2 experiments using this task disclosed stimulus control by the particular items in the arrays and by the same-different relations exemplified by those items. Relational and item control depended on how many items were in the arrays. Same-different discrimination was evident with 2-item displays, but it was much stronger with 6 or more items. These findings help to define the substrates of advanced conceptual behavior.
Choice Behavior Attention Problem Solving Reaction Time Behavior, Animal Transfer (Psychology) Animals Analysis of Variance Generalization, Stimulus Visual Perception Columbidae Pattern Recognition, Visual Photic Stimulation Concept Formation Discrimination Learning

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