Transposition in pigeons: Reassessing Spence (1937) with multiple discrimination training

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-46

  Lazareva, Olga F ^a,c   Wasserman, Edward A ^a   Young, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MULTIPLE DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORETICAL SAMPLE; TRAINING; TRANSPOSITION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REINFORCEMENT; TEACHING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TEACHING;

EID: 22844434154     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196048     Document Type: Review

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