Type of Publication: | Journal article |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-217865 |
Author: | Wright, Anthony A.; Cook, Robert G.; Rivera, Jacqueline J.; Sands, Stephen F.; Delius, Juan |
Year of publication: | 1988 |
Published in: | Animal Learning & Behavior ; 16 (1988), 4. - pp. 436-444. - ISSN 0090-4996. - eISSN 1532-5830 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03209384 |
Summary: |
Pigeons were trained to match-to-sample with several new methodologies: a large number of stimuli, computer-drawn color picture stimuli, responses monitored by a computer touch screen, stimuli presented horizontally from the floor, and grain reinforcement delivered onto the picture stimuli. Following acquisition, matching-to-sample concept learning was assessed by transfer to novel stimuli on the first exposure to pairs of novel stimuli. One group (trial-unique), trained with 152 different pictures presented once daily, showed excellent transfer (80% correct). Transfer and baseline performances were equivalent, indicating that the matching-to-sample concept had been learned. A second group (2-stimulus), trained with only two different pictures, showed no evidence of transfer. These results are discussed in terms of the effect of numbers of exemplars on previous failures to find concept learning in pigeons, and the implications of the positive finding from this experiment on abstract concept learning and evolutionary cognitive development.
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Subject (DDC): | 150 Psychology |
Link to License: | In Copyright |
WRIGHT, Anthony A., Robert G. COOK, Jacqueline J. RIVERA, Stephen F. SANDS, Juan DELIUS, 1988. Concept learning by pigeons : matching-to-sample with trial-unique video picture stimuli. In: Animal Learning & Behavior. 16(4), pp. 436-444. ISSN 0090-4996. eISSN 1532-5830. Available under: doi: 10.3758/BF03209384
@article{Wright1988Conce-21786, title={Concept learning by pigeons : matching-to-sample with trial-unique video picture stimuli}, year={1988}, doi={10.3758/BF03209384}, number={4}, volume={16}, issn={0090-4996}, journal={Animal Learning & Behavior}, pages={436--444}, author={Wright, Anthony A. and Cook, Robert G. and Rivera, Jacqueline J. and Sands, Stephen F. and Delius, Juan} }
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