ArticleCognition2019
Testing analogical rule transfer in pigeons (Columba livia).
Article in Cognition, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Within-session dynamics of categorical and memory mechanisms in pigeons.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- A Dissociative Framework for Understanding Same-Different Conceptualization.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2021Article
- Exploring Explicit Learning Strategies: A Dissociative Framework for Research.New ideas in psychology · 2021Article
- Pigeons exhibit flexibility but not rule formation in dimensional learning, stimulus generalization, and task switching.Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition · 2020Article
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Abstract
Categorization is an essential cognitive process useful for transferring knowledge from previous experience to novel situations. The mechanisms by which trained categorization behavior extends to novel stimuli, especially in animals, are insufficiently understood. To understand how pigeons learn and transfer category membership, seven pigeons were trained to classify controlled, bi-dimensional stimuli in a two-alternative forced-choice task. Following either dimensional, rule-based (RB) or information integration (II) training, tests were conducted focusing on the "analogical" extension of the learned discrimination to novel regions of the stimulus space (Casale, Roeder, & Ashby, 2012). The pigeons' results mirrored those from human and non-human primates evaluated using the same analogical task structure, training and testing: the pigeons transferred their discriminative behavior to the new extended values following RB training, but not after II training. Further experiments evaluating rule-based models and association-based models suggested the pigeons use dimensions and associations to learn the task and mediate transfer to stimuli within the novel region of the parametric stimulus space.
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