Journal article
The Pigeon's Recognition of Drawings of Depth-Rotated Stimuli
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, Vol.22(2), pp.205-221
04/1996
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.22.2.205
PMID: 8618103
Abstract
Four experiments used a four-choice discrimination learning paradigm to explore the pigeon's recognition of line drawings of four objects (an airplane, a chair, a desk lamp, and a flashlight) that were rotated in depth. The pigeons reliably generalized discriminative responding to pictorial stimuli over all untrained depth rotations, despite the birds' having been trained at only a single depth orientation. These generalization gradients closely resembled those found in prior research that used other stimulus dimensions. Increasing the number of different vantage points in the training set from one to three broadened the range of generalized testing performance, with wider spacing of the training orientations more effectively broadening generalized responding. Template and geon theories of visual recognition are applied to these empirical results.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Pigeon's Recognition of Drawings of Depth-Rotated Stimuli
- Creators
- Edward A Wasserman - Department of Psychology, University of IowaJoseph L Gagliardi - Department of Psychology, University of IowaBrigette R Cook - Department of Psychology, University of IowaKim Kirkpatrick-Steger - Department of Psychology, University of IowaSuzette L Astley - Department of Psychology, Cornell CollegeIrving Biederman - Department of Psychology, University of Southern California
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, Vol.22(2), pp.205-221
- DOI
- 10.1037/0097-7403.22.2.205
- PMID
- 8618103
- NLM abbreviation
- J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process
- ISSN
- 0097-7403
- eISSN
- 1939-2184
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/1996
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070429602771
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