Symbolic Matching by Pigeons: Rate of Learning Complex Discriminations Predicted from Simple Discriminations
Abstract
Pigeons had no greater difficulty learning a complex discrimination involving arbitrary interrelations among stimuli (symbolic matching) than one involving interrelations based on stimulus similarity (matching-to-sample). The relative rates of acquisition of matching and symbolic matching may be accounted for by the discriminability between sample stimuli and between comparison stimuli, with the former playing the more important role.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- February 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.1114318
- Bibcode:
- 1975Sci...187..662C