Transitive responding in pigeons: Influences of stimulus frequency and reinforcement history

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 185-195

  Siemann, Martina ^a   Delius, Juan D ^a   Wright, Anthony A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination learning; Learning model; Reinforcement history; Transitive inference; Transitive responding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 0030248431     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(96)00020-4     Document Type: Article

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