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Light‐dark discrimination and reversal learning in early postnatal kittens
Author(s) -
Rose Guenter H.,
Collins Jeremiah P.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.420080607
Subject(s) - psychology , audiology , reinforcement , discrimination learning , developmental psychology , electrophysiology , neuroscience , medicine , social psychology
During the early postnatal period kittens were trained in a visual discrimination task involving light‐dark stimuli in order to determine the age of onset of visual control of learned behavior. A Y water maze was used with escape from water as the reinforcer. The results indicate that kittens are able to master the discrimination within the 5th week of life. The relevance of this result to electro physiological measures of maturation is discussed.