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NON‐SPATIAL DELAYED ALTERNATION BY THE PIGEON 1
Author(s) -
Williams Ben A.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1971.16-15
Subject(s) - alternation (linguistics) , psychology , audiology , spontaneous alternation , task (project management) , medicine , neuroscience , hippocampus , philosophy , linguistics , management , economics
Pigeons were trained on a non‐spatial delayed alternation task in which the color not pecked on the previous trial was correct. When varying delays were interposed between trials, alternation accuracy decreased as a function of delay, but remained greater than chance with a 45‐sec delay. Successful alternation on the longer delays was accomplished without behavioral mediation of the delay intervals. Also, during initial testing when a position cue was available in addition to the color cue after incorrect trials, alternation accuracy was greater after a preceding incorrect trial than after a correct trial. When the position cue was removed, no differences occurred as a function of the outcome of the preceding trial.
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