TY - JOUR
T1 - Pigeon transitive inference
T2 - Tests of simple accounts of a complex performance
AU - Wynne, C. D.L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported through grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaftto J.D. Delius and from the NSF and NIMH to J.E.R. Staddon. I gratefully acknowledget he support of the von Humboldt Stiftung. My thanks to Juan Delius and the members of the F.G. Allgemeine Psychologie, in particular,A ndreas WohlschlPger, for their support and encouragementI. am grateful to Juan Delius, Geoff Hammond, Jennifer Higa-King, Armando Machado, Andrew Page, Martina Siemann and John Staddon for most helpful commentso n previous drafts.
Copyright:
Copyright 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. All rights reserved.
PY - 1997/1
Y1 - 1997/1
N2 - This study addressed pigeons' abilities to form transitive inferences and the mechanism by which they do so. Subjects were trained on four operant discriminations in a 5-term series-A+B-, B+C-, C+D- and D+E- (where [+] denotes reward, and [-] non-reward in choice). In unreinforced tests, choice of B over D is evidence of transitive inference formation. Training proceeded without the subjects being presented the training pairs in blocks. Results show that randomized training degrades the performance of pigeons, just as it does human subjects, but that some subjects can still respond transitively under these conditions. In addition, the results support reinforcement models of transitive inference performance.
AB - This study addressed pigeons' abilities to form transitive inferences and the mechanism by which they do so. Subjects were trained on four operant discriminations in a 5-term series-A+B-, B+C-, C+D- and D+E- (where [+] denotes reward, and [-] non-reward in choice). In unreinforced tests, choice of B over D is evidence of transitive inference formation. Training proceeded without the subjects being presented the training pairs in blocks. Results show that randomized training degrades the performance of pigeons, just as it does human subjects, but that some subjects can still respond transitively under these conditions. In addition, the results support reinforcement models of transitive inference performance.
KW - Operant discrimination
KW - Pigeon
KW - Reinforcement model
KW - Transitive inference
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U2 - 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00048-4
DO - 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00048-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031026766
SN - 0376-6357
VL - 39
SP - 95
EP - 112
JO - Behavioural processes
JF - Behavioural processes
IS - 1
ER -