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Science 21 February 1975:
Vol. 187. no. 4177, pp. 662 - 664
DOI: 10.1126/science.1114318
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Science, Vol 187, Issue 4177, 662-664
Copyright © 1975 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Symbolic matching by pigeons: rate of learning complex discriminations predicted from simple discriminations

DE Carter and DA Eckerman

Pigeons had no greater difficulty learning a complex discrimination involving arbitrary among stimuli (symbolic matching) than one involving interrelations based on stimulus similarity (matching-to-sample). The relative rates of acquisitions of matching and symblic matching may be accounted for by the discriminability between sample stimuli and between comparison stimuli, with the former playing the more important role.


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