Pigeons Learn Stimulus Identity and Stimulus Relations When Both Serve as Redundant, Relevant Cues During Same-Different Discrimination Training

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 84-91

  Gibson, Brett M ^a,b   Wasserman, Edward A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMBA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0037269023     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.29.1.84     Document Type: Article

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