Failure to find evidence of stimulus generalization within pictorial categories in pigeons

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 333-343

  Sutton, Jennifer E ^b   Roberts, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Categories; Concepts; Discrimination; Pictures; Pigeons; Stimulus generalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLUMBIDAE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0036834184     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2002.78-333     Document Type: Article

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