Journal article
The pigeon's discrimination of shape and location information
Visual cognition, Vol.7(4), pp.417-436
04/01/2000
DOI: 10.1080/135062800394595
Abstract
Two groups of pigeons (n = 4) were trained with 16 line drawings portraying a fixed shape and a variable shape. The four variable shapes (a wedge, a cone, a cylinder, and a handle) appeared to the left of, to the right of, above, or below the fixed shape (a cube). Group Shape (S) was required to discriminate the identity of the variable shape that was mated with the cube, whereas Group Location (L) was required to discriminate where the variable shape appeared relative to the cube. Three of the four pigeons in each group mastered their respective tasks. Later tests revealed that the two groups of pigeons had attended to different aspects of the shape pairs, even though the visual stimuli and general procedures they had been given were the same. Group S had attended to the identity of the variable shape and had ignored the identity and location of the cube, whereas Group L had attended to the configuration of the two shapes. The methods and stimuli could be useful in delineating the biological bases of shape and location perception.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The pigeon's discrimination of shape and location information
- Creators
- Kim Kirkpatrick-StegerEdward A WassermanIrving Biederman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Visual cognition, Vol.7(4), pp.417-436
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1080/135062800394595
- ISSN
- 1350-6285
- eISSN
- 1464-0716
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2000
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984070793902771
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