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Natural concepts in pigeons.
Abstract
Pigeons learned to discriminate pictures of trees, bodies of water, or a particular person in three separate experiments. Pictures being seen for the first time were discriminated almost as well as pictures seen in training. The pigeons in each experiment showed similar patterns of errors and correct discrimination.
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“This measure was adapted from similar approaches reported previously [53, 54] and involves calculating Proportion of (S + > All S − ) × Proportion (S − All S + ) and provides a score between 0 and 1, where 0 is no discrimination and 1 re fl ects perfect correct responding to both cues.”
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- Authors
- Herrnstein, R. J., Loveland, D. H., & Cable, C.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
- Published
- 1976-10
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 285-302
- ISSN
- 0097-7403 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2184
- OpenAlex
- W2089545511
- Cited by
- 692
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 7.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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