Evidence for response membership in stimulus classes by pigeons

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 129-149

  Urcuioli, Peter J ^a   Jones, B Max ^b   Lionello denolf, Karen M ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative symmetry; Conditional discrimination; Key peck; Pigeons; Response membership; Simple discrimination; Stimulus classes; Successive matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878230392     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: 19383711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jeab.17     Document Type: Article

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