Same/Different Concept Learning by Pigeons: The Role of Symmetry

Bradley R. Sturz; Jeffrey S. Katz; Kent D. Bodily; Anthony A. Wright

Same/Different Concept Learning by Pigeons: The Role of Symmetry

Bradley R. Sturz, Jeffrey S. Katz, Kent D. Bodily, Anthony A. Wright

Psychology

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Abstract

Pigeons trained in a simultaneous same/different task to discriminate pairs of pictures as same or different completely transferred to novel stimuli indicating abstract-concept formation. To rule out the possibility that there was some low-level feature of symmetry that might have cued responding, we trained and tested the same pigeons with sequential stimulus presentations. By separating the two stimuli in time, symmetry features would not be simultaneously present. Complete concept learning occurred suggesting that symmetry is not a controlling factor in this discrimination.

Original language	American English
State	Published - 2004
Event	Paper presented at a meeting of the Comparative Cognition Conference - Duration: Jan 1 2004 → …

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Conference	Paper presented at a meeting of the Comparative Cognition Conference
Period	01/1/04 → …

Keywords

abstract-concept formation
concept learning
novel stimuli
same/different task

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Cognition and Perception
Cognitive Psychology
Psychology

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Same/Different Concept Learning by Pigeons: The Role of Symmetry

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