Transitive responding in hooded crows requires linearly ordered stimuli

Olga F Lazareva; Anna A Smirnova; Maria S Bagozkaja; Zoya A Zorina; Vladimir V Rayevsky; Edward A Wasserman

doi:10.1901/jeab.2004.82-1

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Transitive responding in hooded crows requires linearly ordered stimuli

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Transitive responding in hooded crows requires linearly ordered stimuli

Olga F Lazareva, Anna A Smirnova, Maria S Bagozkaja, Zoya A Zorina, Vladimir V Rayevsky and Edward A Wasserman

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.82(1), pp.1-19

07/2004

DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2004.82-1

PMCID: PMC1284988

PMID: 15484868

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Abstract

Eight crows were taught to discriminate overlapping pairs of visual stimuli (A+ B-, B+ C-, C+ D-, and D+ E-). For 4 birds, the stimuli were colored cards with a circle of the same color on the reverse side whose diameter decreased from A to E (ordered feedback group). These circles were made available for comparison to potentially help the crows order the stimuli along a physical dimension. For the other 4 birds, the circles corresponding to the colored cards had the same diameter (constant feedback group). In later testing, a novel choice pair (BD) was presented. Reinforcement history involving stimuli B and D was controlled so that the reinforcement/nonreinforcement ratios for the latter would be greater than for the former. If, during the BD test, the crows chose between stimuli according to these reinforcement/nonreinforcement ratios, then they should prefer D; if they chose according to the diameter of the feedback stimuli, then they should prefer B. In the ordered feedback group, the crows strongly preferred B over D; in the constant feedback group, the crows' choice did not differ significantly from chance. These results, plus simulations using associative models, suggest that the orderability of the postchoice feedback stimuli is important for crows' transitive responding.

Animals

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Visual Perception - physiology

Feedback

Discrimination (Psychology)

Reinforcement (Psychology)

Cognition - physiology

Crows

Discrimination Learning

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Title: Subtitle: Transitive responding in hooded crows requires linearly ordered stimuli
Creators: Olga F Lazareva - Institute of Higher Nervous Activity, Moscow State University. olga-lazareva@uiowa.edu
Anna A Smirnova
Maria S Bagozkaja
Zoya A Zorina
Vladimir V Rayevsky
Edward A Wasserman
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.82(1), pp.1-19
Publisher: United States
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2004.82-1
PMID: 15484868
PMCID: PMC1284988
ISSN: 0022-5002
eISSN: 1938-3711
Language: English
Date published: 07/2004
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984070392302771

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