Functional equivalence in pigeons involving a four-member class

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 395-403

  Friedrich, Andrea M ^a   Clement, Tricia S ^b   Zentall, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional equivalence; Many to one matching; Pigeons; Single code default; Stimulus class formation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYBRID; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; COLUMBIDAE; CONCEPT FORMATION;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 7044271120     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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