A category-overshadowing effect in pigeons: Support for the Common Elements Model of object categorization learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 322-328

  Soto, Fabian A ^a   Wasserman, Edward A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Object categorization; Overshadowing; Pigeon; Prediction error

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD DEPRIVATION; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CLASSIFICATION; COLUMBIDAE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871882728     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028803     Document Type: Article

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