How pigeons discriminate the relative frequency of events

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-175

  Keen, Richard ^b   Machado, Armando ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Context; Key peck; Mathematical model; Pigeon; Recency and primacy effects; Relative frequency discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 0033190982     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1999.72-151     Document Type: Article

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