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Direct linkGhosh, Natasha; Lea, S. E. G.; Noury, Malia – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2004
Two experiments examined pigeons' generalization to intermediate forms following training of concept discriminations. In Experiment 1, the training stimuli were sets of images of dogs and cats, and the transfer stimuli were head/body chimeras, which humans tend to categorize more readily in terms of the head part rather than the body part. In…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Generalization
