Journal article
Temporal factors influencing the pigeon's successive matching-to-sample performance: sample duration, intertrial interval, and retention interval
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.30(2), pp.153-162
09/1978
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1978.30-153
PMID: 16812094
Abstract
A successive matching-to-sample procedure that entails the sequential presentation of sample and test stimuli and the monitoring of response rates in a go/no-go discrimination of matching and nonmatching stimuli was studied as an alternative to the familiar delayed-matching paradigm of animal short-term memory. Three within-subject experiments studied the effects of sample duration (1 to 12 seconds), intertrial interval (5 to 50 seconds), and retention interval (1 to 50 seconds) on the pigeon's successive-matching performance. The results revealed that retention was (a) an increasing function of sample duration and intertrial interval, and (b) a decreasing function of retention interval. These results were in accord with those of more traditional short-term memory paradigms, and reveal the suitability of the successive-matching procedure for studying memory processes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Temporal factors influencing the pigeon's successive matching-to-sample performance: sample duration, intertrial interval, and retention interval
- Creators
- K R NelsonE A Wasserman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.30(2), pp.153-162
- DOI
- 10.1901/jeab.1978.30-153
- PMID
- 16812094
- NLM abbreviation
- J Exp Anal Behav
- ISSN
- 0022-5002
- eISSN
- 1938-3711
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/1978
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070840402771
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