1975/02/21 by David E. Carter, David A. Eckerman · 1 citation
Psychology · Veterinary · #Behavioral and Psychological Studies #Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies #Primate Behavior and Ecology
paper · doi:10.1126/science.1114318
openalex publication_date 1975/02/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
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.