Effect of between-category similarity on basic level superiority in pigeons

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 236-245

  Lazareva, Olga F ^a   Soto, Fabián A ^b   Wasserman, Edward A ^b  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic category; Categorization; Pigeons; Stimulus similarity; Superordinate category; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CHILD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPH; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHAIR; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWER; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIGEON; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

COLUMBA;

EID: 78149282080     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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