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Direct linkSanabria, Federico; Thrailkill, Eric – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
The game of Matching Pennies (MP), a simplified version of the more popular Rock, Papers, Scissors, schematically represents competitions between organisms with incentives to predict each other's behavior. Optimal performance in iterated MP competitions involves the production of random choice patterns and the detection of nonrandomness in the…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Play, Animals, Probability
