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FORMATION OF TRANSITIVITY IN CONDITIONAL MATCHING TO SAMPLE BY PIGEONS
Author(s) -
Kuno Hiromichi,
Kitadate Tsutomu,
Iwamoto Takashige
Publication year - 1994
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.1994.62-399
Subject(s) - transitive relation , stimulus (psychology) , psychology , matching (statistics) , equivalence (formal languages) , sample (material) , artificial intelligence , computer science , communication , natural language processing , cognitive psychology , pattern recognition (psychology) , mathematics , statistics , discrete mathematics , combinatorics , chemistry , chromatography
Four homing pigeons were trained over 5 months in a zero‐delay, “arbitrary” matching‐to‐sample procedure with sample and comparison stimuli presented on any of three response keys. Birds were also required to complete a fixed‐ratio 10 requirement on both sample and comparison stimuli to terminate their presentation. The procedure resulted in the establishment of relations that were not specifically trained and that can be characterized by the property of transitivity in a stimulus equivalence context. This result was in contrast with the findings obtained from most previous research with nonhuman subjects.